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HTML Colors: Are Yours Web-Safe?When selecting colors for your website, it's better to be web-safe than sorry.It may be technically possible to create millions of colors in HTML, but not all monitors will display what you have envisioned. Millions of colors require computer memory. While most computers used to access the Internet are now capable of displaying over sixteen million colors, some are set to display only thousands. A very small portion of web users are looking at colors using a mere 216-color palette. (The palette is actually 256 colors, but forty of those colors are not used because of incompatibility between PCs and Macs.) In the past, those users numbered high enough to warrant using a limited palette. Today, the number of monitors set to display 256 colors is very small. For that reason, the trend is going from web-safe to a reasonable safe, but very expanded palette of 4096 colors. From web-safe to risky, the color options for website design are a 216-color, a 4096-color and a whopping 16,777,216-color palette. The web-safe palette of 216 colors is made up of six degrees each of red, green and blue. Six reds multiplied by six greens mulitplied by six blues yields the 256 colors. With sixteen times more color choices than the 216-color palette, the 4096-color palette is a reasonably safe alternative. This palette contains sixteen values each of red, green and blue. Sixteen reds multiplied by sixteen greens, multiplied by sixteen blues yields a total palette of 4096 colors. Just be aware that a small (probably a very small) percentage of your website visitors will view your site with a monitor set to 256 colors. With a font, text or background color not included in those 256, the nearest color will be substituted. Using the 16-million plus color palette is risky, and probably not worth it. For obvious reasons, there isn't a complete chart available for this palette. Not even close! However, you'll find these colors in charts all over the web. Here's how to tell what's safe, and what you might want to avoid: HTML color codes that are compatible for the monitors set to thousands of colors or greater (and that's most of us) come in three pairs, each pair having the same letter or number. For example, FF0033 is a shade of red and is from the web-safe palette. Any code that varies from this pattern of pairs will yield a color that can only be viewed using a monitor set to millions of colors. Every HTML color code is composed of six digits. Some are numbers; others are letters. If the code has three pairs of digits with each pair containing the same number or letter, you're safe if your website is viewed using a monitor set to thousands of colors, or higher. That's almost everybody. If the code only contains pairs of 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF, you're as safe as you can be. |
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