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Color Conversion Tool

	Color Name:	Red	Green	Blue		Hex 6:		Hue	Sat.	Lum.
	Yellowish on this site - #FFFFC8 White - #FFFFFF Alice Blue - #F0F8FF Antique White - #FAEBD7 Aqua - #00FFFF - CSS1 Aquamarine - #7FFFD4 Azure - #F0FFFF Beige - #F5F5DC Bisque - #FFE4C4 Black - #000000 - CSS1 BlanchedAlmond - #FFEBCD Blue - #0000FF - CSS1 Blue-Violet - #8A2BE2 Brown - #A52A2A Burlywood - #DEB887 Cadet Blue - #5F9EA0 Chartreuse - #7FFF00 Chocolate - #D2691E Coral - #FF7F50 Cornflower Blue - #6495ED Cornsilk - #FFF8DC Crimson - #DC143C Cyan - #00FFFF Dark Blue - #00008B Dark Cyan - #008B8B Dark Goldenrod - #B8860B Dark Gray - #A9A9A9 Dark Green - #006400 Dark Khaki - #BDB76B Dark Magenta - #8B008B Dark Olive-Green - #556B2F Dark Orange - #FF8C00 Dark Orchid - #9932CC Dark Red - #8B0000 Dark Salmon - #E9967A Dark Sea Green - #8FBC8F Dark Slate Blue - #483D8B Dark Slate Gray - #2F4F4F Dark Turquoise - #00CED1 Dark Violet - #9400D3 Deep Pink - #FF1493 Deep Sky Blue - #00BFFF Dim Gray - #696969 Dodger Blue - #1E90FF Feldspar - #D19275 Firebrick - #B22222 Floral White - #FFFAF0 Forest Green - #228B22 Fuchsia - #FF00FF - CSS1 Gainsboro - #DCDCDC Ghost White - #F8F8FF Gold - #FFD700 Goldenrod - #DAA520 Gray - #808080 - CSS1 Green - #008000 - CSS1 Green-Yellow - #ADFF2F Honeydew - #F0FFF0 Hot Pink - #FF69B4 Indian Red - #CD5C5C Indigo - #4B0082 Ivory - #FFFFF0 Khaki - #F0E68C Lavender - #E6E6FA Lavender-Blush - #FFF0F5 Lawn Green - #7CFC00 Lemon Chiffon - #FFFACD Light Blue - #ADD8E6 Light Coral - #F08080 Light Cyan - #E0FFFF Light Goldenrod Yellow - #FAFAD2 Light Green - #D3D3D3 Light Grey - #90EE90 Light Pink - #FFB6C1 Light Salmon - #FFA07A Light Sea Green - #20B2AA Light Sky Blue - #87CEFA Light Slate Gray - #8470FF Light Steel Blue - #778899 Light Yellow - #FFFFE0 Lime - #00FF00 Lime-Green - #32CD32 Linen - #FAF0E6 Magenta - #FF00FF Maroon - #800000 Medium Aquamarine - #66CDAA Medium Blue - #0000CD Medium Orchid - #BA55D3 Medium Purple - #9370D8 Medium Sea Green - #3CB371 Medium Slate Blue - #7B68EE Medium Spring Green - #00FA9A Medium Turquoise - #48D1CC Medium Violet-Red #C71585 Midnight Blue - #191970 Mint Cream - #F5FFFA Misty Rose - #FFE4E1 Moccasin - #FFE4B5 Navajo White - #FFDEAD Navy - #000080 Old Lace - #FDF5E6 Olive - #808000 Olive Drab - #6B8E23 Orange - #FFA500 Orange - #D02090 Orange Red - #FF4500 Orchid - #DA70D6 Pale Goldenrod - #EEE8AA Pale Green - #98FB98 Pale Turquoise - #AFEEEE Pale Violet-Red - #D87093 Papaya Whip - #FFEFD5 Peach Puff - #FFDAB9 Peru - #CD853F Pink - #FFC0CB Plum - #DDA0DD Powder Blue - #B0E0E6 Purple - #800080 Red - #FF0000 Rosy Brown - #BC8F8F Royal Blue - #4169E1 Saddle Brown - #8B4513 Salmon - #FA8072 Sandy Brown - #F4A460 Sea Green - #2E8B57 Seashell - #FFF5EE Sienna - #A0522D Silver - #C0C0C0 Sky Blue - #87CEEB Slate Blue - #6A5ACD Slate Gray - #708090 Snow - #FFFAFA Spring Green - #00FF7F Steel Blue - #4682B4 Tan - #D2B48C Teal - #008080 Thistle - #D8BFD8 Tomato - #FF6347 Turquoise - #40E0D0 Violet - #EE82EE Violet Red - #D02090 Wheat - #F5DEB3 White - #FFFFFF White Smoke - #F5F5F5 Yellow - #FFFF00 Yellow-Green - #9ACD32

Famous Colors on logos

Logo Color Hex RGB Red #D62D20 214,45,32 Green #008744 0,135,68 Blue #0057E7 0,87,231 Orange #FFA700 255,167,0 White #EEEEEE 238,238,238

Amazon
	#F84603	248,70,3
	#FF9616	255,150,22
	#FFCB00	255,203,0
	#003BB2	0,59,178
	#00FFDC	0,255,220

Google uses bold, primary colors in its corporate logo.

Color Psychology Folklore

Different cultures have different positive and negative associations with each color:

Color	Positive	Negative
Red	energy, power, vigor, leadership, courage, passion, activity, joy, highly visible	danger, evil, anger, blood
Green	wealth, money, calming, trees, ambition, endurance, healing, calm, generosity, natural, completion	protection, envy, jealousy, immaturity
Blue	ecurity, trustworthy, stability, loyalty, wisdom, trust, friendliness, preservation, courage, science	sadness, depression, cold, immoral, stai
Orange	cheerful, passion, pleasure, enthusiasm, fascination, creativity, fun	frivolous, flamboyant, crass, low Class
Yellow	optimism, childish, freshness, law, education	arrogance, cowardice, illness, betrayal
Purple	magic, mystery, spirituality, the sub-conscious, creativity, dignity, royalty,	mourning, cruelty, arrogance, conceit
Black	powerful, mysterious, elegance, sophistication, functionality	death, morbid, plague, aloof

From Thinkful's excellent yet concise item on colors.

Meanings of Color Varies

From ANSI/AAMI (2009) at Elizabeth Allen

Color	Location	Cultural significance
Red	United States	Stop (danger) at traffic lights: high priority alert; Christmas when combined with green; love (Valentine's Day) when combined with pink.
	Eastern cultures	With white, signifies joy
	China	Symbolizes celebration and luck: used in cultural ceremonies ranging from funerals to weddings
	India	Purity; used in wedding outfits
Green	China	Not a good color choice for packaging: green hats mean a man's wife is cheating on him
	France	Not a good color choice for packaging
	India	The color of Islam
Blue	China	Associated with immorality
	Columbia	Associated with soap
	Hinduism	The color of Krishna
	Judaism	Holiness
	Middle East	Protective color
Orange	Holland	Color of the Royal Family
	Ireland	Religious significance (Protestant)
Yellow	Asia	Sacred, imperial
	Western cultures	Joy or happiness; intermediate-priority alert (caution); continue but caution, stop if possible (traffic lights)

Color My Eye RGB The human eye recognizes color using three kinds of photoreceptor cone cells, each sensing a different band of light — Red, Green, and Blue (abbreviated as "RGB"). These are called the three "basic" colors. This is different than primary colors, which are red, blue, and yellow. Color Name r,g,b Hex 6 Hex 3 Sample *Black (CSS1) 黝 0,0,0 #000000 #000   Dark Slate Gray 49,79,79 #2f4f4f -   none 51,51,51 #333333 #333   none 102,102,102 #666666 #666   Dim Gray 105,105,105 #696969 -   Slate Gray 112,138,144 #708090 -   Light Slate Gray 119,136,153 #778899 -   "Normal" *Gray (CSS1) 128,128,128 #808080 -   none 153,153,153 #999999 #999   *Silver (CSS1) 192,192,192 #C0C0C0 -   Light Gray 211,211,211 #d3d3d3 -   Gainsboro 220,220,220 #dcdcdc -   *White (CSS1)  256,256,256 #FFFFFF #FFF   RGB Grayness HTML uses "additive" color values specified by the properties of light emitted from LCD monitors which produce color by electrifying various gases . Black is the absence of light shining, so it's specified with zeros. White light contains the maximum value of all three colors. This is why some mobile phone users use a black background to preserve battery life. "Normal" gray has equal amounts of all three primary colors at 50%, represented as decimal 128 (hex 80), which is midway to the maximum 256. Each 8-bit hex digit can have one of 16 values (from 0 through 9,A,B,C,D,E,F). So divide a decimal number by 16 for the first hex digit. Divide the remainder by 16 for the second hex digit. Alternately, multiply the first hex digit by 255 to convert it to decimal. RGB coloring is specified in Cascading Style Sheet coding one of several ways: color: rgb(255,255,255); // 3 decimals color: #FFFFFF; // hex triplet color: #FFF; // hex shortcut 3-digit hex shortcuts are automatically converted by browsers doubling each digit such that #678 = #667788. Although more compact, they cannot be used to identify colors with non-repeating color values such as #ACD257. This Gimp tutorial on grayscale describes and compares different techniques on how to turn color photos into grayscale. Since the maximum value of each hex "FF" is equivalant to decimal value 256, the RGB color space has 256*256*256 or 16,777,216 possible colors, while most humans can distinguish a gamut of about 10 million different colors.

Contrasting Colors

TOOL: Color Contrast Check allows users to specify a foreground and a background colour to determine if there is enough of a difference between them in brightness and contrast for someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen.

TOOL: Contrast Ratio Calculator at MSF&W recommends whether use use white or black fonts over typical background colors based on this formula:

• 3:1 - minimum contrast for "large scale" text (18 pt or 14 pt bold, or larger) under WCAG 2.0 1.4.3 (Level AA)
• 4.5:1 - minimum contrast for regular sized text under WCAG 2.0 1.4.3 (Level AA)
• 7:1 - "enhanced" contrast for regular sized text under WCAG 2.0 1.4.6 (Level AAA)

Pantone Colors

Pantone is a proprietary naming system (color space) the company uses to ensure accurate color on a variety of mediums (ink, paint, plastics, etc.). Their fan book has 1,757 numbered swatches of color.

CMYK Subtractive Colors

Printing ink on paper use a color model called CMYK for the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and blacK pigments that are blended to absorb light reflecting off the media. This is called "subtractive" Image Mode in Photoshop.

Donald A. Jusko's "Real Color Wheel" shown here has white dots for colors which can be reproduced using paint pigments which absorb light.

The Real Color Wheel (for printers, anyway). "In the sky cyan gets darker through blue."

How to use it to mix paints that truely represents nature.

White dots are colors which, as of 2012, cannot be reproduced. But advances in chemistry over time will change that.

HSV

HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value), also call HSB (with B for Brightness).

TOOL: Coolors.com provides a nice color picker web page featuring a HSB slider.

RGB to HSV conversion algorithms are available.

HIE (hue, luminosity, and psychometric saturation)

SIH (Saturation, Intensity, and Hue)

The International Commission on Lighting (abbreviated CIE from its French name Commission Internationale de l'Êclairage) is the body responsible for international recommendations for photometry and colorimetry. In 1931 it defined the CIELAB (CIE L*a*b*) color space where the same distance within the space represent approximately equal color difference. Variables L*, a* and b* are plotted at right angles to one another.

Color Names % Decimal Hex    100% 255 xFF *Red #FF0000 *Lime #00FF00 *Blue #0000FF  75% 192 xC0 #C00000 #00C000 #0000C0  69% 176 xB0 #B00000 #00B000 #0000B0  60% 153 x99 #990000 #009900 #000099  50% 128 x80 *Maroon #800000 *Green #008000 *Navy #000080  25%  64 x40 #400000 #004000 #000040  20%  51 x33 #330000 #003300 #000033 The yellowish background on this website is R 255, G 255, B 200 (#ffffc8), which I use because it's supposed to be the most relaxing background for the human eye, according to some random website I've long forgotten about. Historically, the W3C CSS1 standard assigned only 16 names: black, gray, silver, white Less Saturated primary colors red, lime, blue More saturated primary colors maroon, green, navy Less saturated complementary colors aqua, fuchsia, and yellow. More saturated complementary colors olive, purple, teal. The CSS1 color name "green" is not as saturated as the CSS1 color name "lime". "Orange" was added in CSS2.1. 147 proprietary color names were introduced with X11, then adopted by only Internet Explorer/Opera, then lately by SVG and CSS3. Color names of course reflect nature: Pastel tones - pink to yellow Pastel tones - lavender, moss green, rust Darker pastel tones - blue, green, gold Grey, brown, orange, and flesh tones Gem tones - lapis lazuli, amethyst, garnet Gem tones - aquamarine, emerald, jade "Browser Safe" Hex Colors The blocks of color are generated by Javascript (instead of static HTML as in this page of 4096 these Hex 3 colors). This 6x6x6 table of color codes on the left displays the 216 "browser safe" color pallette for use on older (v4) internet browsers running on older computers which were only able to support 256 different colors. This palette was first published by Lynda Weinman, who notes that, since 2004, most monitors and browsers can handle more complex colors without "dithering". However, browsers on wireless devices (PDAs and cell phones) are again starting at version 4! Click on the color number to obtain a list of complementary colors from the amazing Netspade site by Jason Davies. > From GREEN to BLUE > F r o m G R E E N t o R E D > From RED to BLUE > Color Theory Kelly Martin's Colorspace Explorer (Lab colorspace, version 3.04) and Cooperative Color Naming System. A good rule of thumb is to take your background colour and compute Y = 0.3R + 0.59G + 0.11B. If Y exceeds 0.5, use black foreground text, otherwise use white." Color Scheme Calculator calculates triad, complementary, analogous, and split complementary colours, plus saturation and lightness variations. Also converts the given colour to RGB and HSL. The advantage of using HSL is that when you keep the brightness and saturation level constant, you will select colors that go well with each other. Bob Power's example. Freeware Eltima Absolute client program doesn't display HSL in percentage, but it's nonetheless a useful color scheme generator, color history builder, color scheme management system, and screen color grabber. Formulas to convert between color space schemes are defined in the book Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics by Foley and van Dam (c 1982, Addison-Wesley). Eric Meyer's Color Blend online tool Many ways to select colors by Lisa Irby Complementary Colors By definition, complementary colors have equal amounts of two colors: Red Green Blue Bounces Color Name Absorbs 00 FF FF green and blue Cyan/Aqua red FF 00 FF red and blue Magenta Fuchia green FF FF 00 red and green *Yellow 黄 blue Cyan, magenta, and yellow — abbreviated as "CMY" — are also called "secondary" colors. Less saturated complementary colors: Red Green Blue Bounces Color Name Absorbs 00 80 80 green and blue *Teal red 80 00 80 red and blue *Purple 紫 green 80 80 00 red and green *Olive blue To obtain the complement to a specific color, merely calculating the remainder from 255 or FF doesn't work for all colors. It's more reliable to first convert the number to the number of HSL Hue degrees, then add or subtract 180 degrees. Opposite Color Range *red FF0000 Hue 0 coral FF4000 Hue 15 orange FF8000 Hue 30 tangerine FFC000 Hue 45 *yellow FFFF00 Hue 60 peridot C0FF00 Hue 75 80FF00 Hue 90 40FF00 Hue 105 *lime 00FF00 Hue 120 00FF40 Hue 135 00FF80 Hue 150 mint 00FFC0 Hue 165 *aqua/ cyan 00FFFF Hue 180 sky 00C0FF Hue 195 azure 0080FF Hue 210   0040FF Hue 225 *blue 0000FF Hue 240 royal 4000FF Hue 255 violet 8000FF Hue 270 plum C000FF Hue 285 *fuchsia/ Magenta FF00FF Hue 300 berry FF00C0 Hue 315 pink FF0080 Hue 330 cherry FF0040 Hue 345 These 24 colors are "evenly spaced" — using FF/00, 80/80 (50%/50%), 40/C0 (75%/25%) — and arranged in two rows that are opposite each other. For example, red on the first line is opposite cyan on the second line. The left-to-right arrangement of these 24 colors reflect the sequence of optical light wavelengths along the electro-magnetic spectrum range from red (longer 780 nanometers) to violet (shorter 380 nm). Colors in Google's Material Design Google's Material Design specification for color style (introduced at the Goolge I/O conference June 2014) offers a palette of 19 color names in its .aco swatch file for Photoshop and .ase file for Illustrator. Red F44336 Deep Orange #FF5722 Orange FF9800 Amber #FFC107 Yellow FFEB3B Lime CDDC39 Light Green 8BC34A Green 4CAF50 Teal 009688 Cyan 00BCD4 Light Blue 03A9F4 Blue 2196F3 Indigo 3F51B5 Deep Purple 673AB7 Purple 9C27B0 Pink E91E63 Brown 795548 Grey 9E9E9E Blue Grey 607D8B BLAH: Google's Red 500 looks more orange to me. Hot red / magenta / fuchsia (such as berry and cherry) are missing from the pallette. In their place are muted greys and brown. (Guess Google didn't have stereotypical young girls picking favorite colors). There colors are supposed to all work together (such as this Google I/O track page shown here) ... unless you're at a My Little Pony convention ;). The darkest color in the series is the 900 series: Red B71C1C Deep Orange BF360C Orange E65100 Amber FF6F00 Yellow F57F17 Lime 827717 Light Green 33691E Green 1B5E20 Teal 004D40 Cyan 006064 Light Blue 01579B Blue 0D47A1 Indigo 1A237E Deep Purple 311B92 Purple 4A148C Pink 880E4F Brown 3E2723 Grey 212121 Blue Grey 263238 TOOL: Click on a color on the pallette at MaterialUp.com presents all ranges of that color. Click on a color code and it is pasted to your clipboard. Clever. TOOL: Click 2 colors at MaterialPalette.com and a custom set of colors is shown for your download in various formats. Notice their CSS names: /* Palette generated by Material Palette - materialpalette.com/blue/light-blue */ .dark-primary-color { background: #1976D2; } .default-primary-color { background: #2196F3; } .light-primary-color { background: #BBDEFB; } .text-primary-color { color: #FFFFFF; } .accent-color { background: #03A9F4; } .primary-text-color { color: #212121; } .secondary-text-color { color: #727272; } .divider-color { border-color: #B6B6B6; } Material Color Samples within the Material Deisng for Bootstrap theme Alpha Channel Alpha % Hex Usage 100% FF #000000 12% 1F Dividers 26% 42 Disabled / Hint Text 54% 8A Secondary Text / Icons 87% DE Text   Android mobile apps uses Hex ARGB (or RGBA) values formatted as #AARRGGBB, where the AA is a hex number representing the Alpha Channel to designate the extent of transparency. To derive this hex value from a opacity percentage, first multiple the percent to 255 and round the result up or down. TOOL: Input the number and click convert or manually lookup a TOOL: table to convert between Hex and numeric equivalents A zero returned should have a zero in front of it (padding). The above makes use of the standard Alpha blending equation: out = alpha * new + (1 - alpha) * old HSL Color Pickers HSL Stands for Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity. To specify font color in CSS3 using HSL/HSB: color: hsl( 84, 60, 44 ); # degrees, percent "84" in the first parameter above is for "Hue", expressed as the number of degrees of a circle, a non-linear deformation of the RGB color space makse for smooth change in hue values from 0 (red) to 1 (violet). Arranging the range of both RGB and CMY colors in a circle makes opposite colors intuitively easy to identify. A mnemonic for this is “Young Guys Can Be Messy Rascals”. yellow at 60° green at 120° cyan at 180° blue at 240° magenta at 300° red at the 0°/360 position; "60" in the second parameter is the saturation percent, a measure of color "purity" — from 100% brightness down through pastels to near 0% for a light tint. This is selected by the vertical position of the mouse in the GUI. "44" in the third parameter is the Luminosity / Lightness percent (100% is white, 0% is black, 50% is for "normal"/"pure" color). HSL is "symmetrical" to lightness and darkness, Unlike the HSV system. If you like sliders, HTML Color Picker at html-color-codes.info shows RBG and HSV values for each point on the slider. This system is used by Apple computers and the GIMP graphics program. Macromedia Studio, Paint Shop Pro, Inkscape (starting from version 0.42) are all supporting HSL, as are photospectrometers which measure colors. This graphic is from a great tutorial on color theory from Thinkful.com Because HSL has a fixed order, comparisons can be made between years visually, as Vijay P did in his Colours in movie posters 1914-2012. Some use the word "Brightness" instead of "Luminosity" for "HSB", a color system defined in 1978 by A. R. Smith. Microsoft Color Pickers The Microsoft Windows system (and MSPaint) converts RGB to HSL incorrectly. The vertical slider at the right specifies the "luminosity" value used in the "HSL" color system, where HSL stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness/Luminosity, The hexagon in Microsoft's "Standard" Color Picker seen in Visio 2002, Word 2003, etc. are not intuitive. Unlike other color picker interfaces, pure colors are not in a corner: red is the 2nd row up from the bottom onhex in from the right. blue is the from the left/right outer ring or 2nd from the top/bottom hex. green I don't know All colors use a combination of "browser safe" values 255 (xFF) - 204 (xCC) - 153 (x99) - 102 (x66) - 51 (x33) - 0. Microsoft's color octogon is made interactive at the TOOL: Color Picker at W3Schools.com. Even less intuitive are the color numbers used by VBScript recorded of actions in Excel 2003 to Format Data Series:   Color Pickers Among the many tools to help you pick colors: Doug's Color Picker shows you how a page looks with background, foreground, and other colors you select from his menu of colors. Sandeep Gangadharan uses this palette: Rich Franzen's Color Wheel uses a Java applet to select Saturation, Intensity, and Hue Color Pickers Pete's Color pages wColorMatters.com Tentacles shows the number on a grid. 1728 uses mouse rollover effects. Principles of Color Design (Wiley; September 26, 1996) by Wucius Wong is the classic introduction to making effective use of color. Interaction of Color, Revised Edition (Yale University Press, 1975) by Josef Albers   Color Wheels The honeycomb color wheel of 216 colors from Visibone, is available as a poster. This color picker from Allscoop suggests web-safe, web-smart, and unsafe RGB color numbers as you mouse over. The color wheel of six conical regions by the (now-obsolete Ascensionware) by Daniel Prust allows you to click and hold down the left mouse button to gradually add color: Victor Engel gives you the color codes and sample coding for where your mouse points on his honeycomb color map:   Paletton (previously at WellStyled.com) includes a simulation of what colors look like to those "color blind". (Approximately 8% of men and 0.5% of women are). About 35% of peole over the age of 60 have measurable difficulty discriminating different shades of blue.   Programming to Specify Color CSS Scrollbar Color Changer generates CSS for colors picked. The following HTML example specifies a page with a white background, black text, blue links, and red visited links: <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#OOOOOO" Alink="#0000FF" link="#0000FF" Vlink="#FF0000"> Type of link HTML <body> Attribute Javascript Property CSS Class { Property Object Model Property Java method Background image BACKGROUND= . BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url('x.gif'); backgroundImage . Background color BGCOLOR bgColor BACKGROUND-COLOR backgroundColor setBackground Foreground color (of text) FGCOLOR fgColor color: #dda0dd color: rgb(0,0,255) . setColor The color of unvisited link text link= linkColor a:link { The (temporary) color of active link text Alink= alinkColor a:active { The color of visited link text Vlink= vlinkColor a:visited { text where mouse hovers - - a:hover { Border color (also Style and Width) . . border-color border-top-color border-bottom-color border-left-color border-right-color borderColor borderTopColor borderBottomColor borderLeftColor borderRightColor The Java coding to change the color to one of the standard colors using a method from the JDE package java.awt.Color: g.setColor( Color.blue ); g.drawString( ... ); Lloyd Dalton shows you Javascript coding for Color select control. Digging deeper... Differences in wavelength energy is why colors can be refracted apart (chromatic dispersed) by a prism or in a rainbow. Radio, microwave, and infra-red waves have longer wavelengths than visible light. Longer wavelengths are used to carry communications signals because they penetrate the atmosphere better at less energy than shorter (but higher energy) rays such as Ultra-Violet (UV), x-ray, and gamma rays. Jesus Christ is painted with a halo above his head in old paintings as a symbol because of this scripture: “It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.” —Genesis 9:13-16 (NKJV) Angels are painted with halos on their head because of this scripture: “I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head ...” —Revelation 10:1 (NKJV) Portions ©Copyright 1996-2013 Wilson Mar. 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