Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard come with a paltry set of solid colors for desktop backgrounds. This is easily remedied with the ImageMagick package (available for install through both MacPorts and Fink), and a quick Terminal command.
The script below generates all the background images for web-safe colors that should then be immediately available for use in the Solid Colors section of the Desktop tab of the Desktop and Screen Saver System Preferences panel.
cd /Library/Desktop\ Pictures/Solid\ Colors; for r in 00 33 66 99 cc ff; do for g in 00 33 66 99 cc ff; do for b in 00 33 66 99 cc ff; do echo Creating image for color $r$g$b; convert -background "#$r$g$b" -page 256x256 text:- "Background $r$g$b.jpg" < /dev/null; done; done; done
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