HTML Color Codes: Red to Yellow to Green

Question

I would like to come up with as many HEX HTML values to have a smooth color gradient from red to green:

I would like this to be similar to the following: http://ww

Answer 1

Depending on how many colors you want to end up with, the solution is just to keep incrementing the green value by a certain amount, and then when green is maxed (FF), decrement the red value repeatedly by the same amount.

Pseudo-code:

int red = 255; //i.e. FF
int green = 0;
int stepSize = ?//how many colors do you want?
while(green < 255)
{
    green += stepSize;
    if(green > 255) { green = 255; }
    output(red, green, 0); //assume output is function that takes RGB
}
while(red > 0)
{
    red -= stepSize;
    if(red < 0) { red = 0; }
    output(red, green, 0); //assume output is function that takes RGB
}

Generating by hand, you can simply increment by 16, like so:

FF0000
FF1000
FF2000
FF3000
FF4000
FF5000
FF6000
FF7000
FF8000
FF9000
FFA000
FFB000
FFC000
FFD000
FFE000
FFF000
FFFF00 //max, step by 15
F0FF00 //cheat, start with a -15 to simplify the rest
E0FF00
D0FF00
C0FF00
B0FF00
A0FF00
90FF00
80FF00
70FF00
60FF00
50FF00
40FF00
30FF00
20FF00
10FF00