Can anyone explain how the hexadecimal colour system works?
Hexadecimal works like binary and denery do, it’s just that you are used to denery (base ten, ie 1-10). Hexadecimal works on 16’s, but there are no numbers that go up to 16 so the letters a – f are used to represent the numbers 11-16. In other words F in Hexadecimal is 16 in denery. Computers work in decimal, ie 1 and 0. But when using large numbers Hexadecimal tends to be used as well, the colour representation you refer to is the RGB (Red green Blue) way of doing things. With 255,255,255 = Pure white and 0,0,0 = pure black In other words each of the three colours has 256 shades of it’s self, which then when mixed with the other two 256 shades of colour give you a pallette of something like 16.9 million shades. Hope that helps?
