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Some ground rules are needed for how various kinds of information are passed between parts of Information Overlaid and between it and your application and for how things are named.
Colours are always given to the system as strings consisting of 3, 2 digit `hexadecimal' numbers such as f08040. This is the same format as is used in HTML except that HTML requires a # character at the start. For compatibility Information Overlaid will ignore a # if you include one.
Information Overlaid does not understand the named colours which can be used in HTML for some browsers, for instance white or brickred. To do so would mean that a large table of colour names would have to be included in the applet which would increase the download time significantly.