Need a color?
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Most consumers of your web content will be in environments capable of rendering much more than the 'web safe' color palette. However when you have choice over the colors you are using for web publishing, particular for items that need to remain sharp and clear, such as type, selecting from the 216 web safe colors will ensure consistent publishing outcomes.
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216 web safe colors and their hexadecimal codes ...
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Compared to the 24-bit web color tables, these 216 web safe 8-bit colors are rendered sharply and without dithering using the GIF image format and are reliable for other purposes such as text, background colors and other browser rendered items. This 'palette' will render reliably and correctly in HTML and CSS compliant environments.
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Lets talk 'art' of communication ...
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The pages on pixels, hex triplets, 24-bit color and this discussion on the web safe palette address some of the web 'science', however color has emotive, cultural and other aspects that are more organic and artistic. Lets have a look at human color perception.
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