Web safe colors
Designers were often encouraged to stick to these 216 "web-safe" colors in their websites; however, 8-bit color displays were much more common when the 216-color palette was developed than they are now. David Lehn and Hadley Stern have since discovered that only 22 of the 216 colors in the web-safe palette are reliably displayed without inconsistent remapping on 16-bit computer displays. They called these 22 colors the "really safe" palette; it consists mainly of shades of green and yellow, as can be seen in the table above, where the "really safe" colors are underlined. [6]
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I definately agree with that.
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Komail Noori
Web Site Design - SEO Expert
I run a Web site in the Boston area and am constantly working with colors, as it is so important to make a Web site look visually appealing (but not overdoing it with colors, either).
The W3C site (a site every Web person should look at) discusses using names for colors in CSS. According to them, only 16 colors have names you can use that validate in an HTML or CSS validator. One of my Web resource pages, titled Valid Color Names for HTML and CSS Files, lists these, along with a display of the corresponding colors. With all other colors, hex codes should be used.
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