Font colours and backgrounds
Make sure that when you use coloured text fonts that the backgrounds of your web pages provide a clear contrast between the page and the body text. In practice dark coloured texts work best against very pale backgrounds.

You set the colour of the background using this tag:
<body bgcolor=ccffcc>
You can also set the background colour of a table, like this
<table bgcolor=ccffcc>
This results in the following:

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Images may also be used as backgrounds. If you use them then make sure they are very, very pale otherwise they interfere with the legibility of the text. I suggest using a pale background gif or jpg only on an opening or welcoming page. Do not use complex pictures as backgrounds when you want the main message to be the text rather than the image. This activity page has a background set using the following code:

Pale text on a dark background may be useful if you want to discourage printing from your web pages.
Very pale coloured texts will not appear on many monochrome printers.

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Text achieved using this code:
<font face=arial color=ccff66 size=1>

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