Defining Colors Using Hex Values: With the Gray-Scale and RGB Color Naming Schemes

Overview

In Version 6, SAS/Graph includes predefined names for 290 different colors. Additional predefined color names became available for over 100 colors for SAS/Graph output in Version 9. These are the HTML color names listed in the SAS Registry. Together the list of predefined colors gives one over 400 colors to choose from. In any of these releases of the SAS system, one can also define their own colors in SAS/Graph using one of the color-naming schemes. The color-naming schemes are documented in the "SAS/Graph Software Reference" section of the OnlineDoc, under "SAS/Graph Colors". This paper focuses on two of those schemes, gray-scale and RGB.