>>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:08:59 -0400, "aardvarko"
>>>|or dim grey text on any background.
>>>Not necessarily. Try around #DDDDDD on stark black, it's pretty easy on
>the
>>>eyes. Also good for fine print.
>>Also not a websafe colour.
>What's a websafe color?
The short answer is that it's one of 216 colors that don't dither when
displayed on the myriad screens that access your web page, assuming
you're that popular.
If you'll realize that I'm hardly the color expert, I'll give you a
longer answer that will make this information more useful.
Mosaic, Netscape and Internet Explorer use the same 216 colors among
them. The additional 40 colors that make up 256 colors aren't used
because they vary among Macs and PCs.
Spotting a websafe color is simple. Web browsers use hexadecimal
call-outs of 6 characters --- 3 sets of 2 characters. Those
2-characters sets are
00
33
66
99
CC
FF
FFFFFF is white, 000000 is black.
Websafe colors are 003366, CCFFFF, 3399CC, etc.
Non-websafe colors are 003377, CCFF44, 3399DD, etc.
To create and use these colors in Photoshop, you'll need the RGB
equivalents, which aren't rocket science:
00 000 Not bad so far...
33 051 Add 51
66 102 Again
99 153 And again
CC 204 Etc.
FF 255 Finished
The 003300 green on my homepage becomes 000, 051, 000 in Photoshop.
Memorize the conversions for mental exercise or put a Post-It Note
guide on your monitor for convenience.
Don't get too e*d, however; with the exception of my green and
everyone else's black, the colors aren't terribly attractive. Math can
be beautiful, but not in this case, which is why so many people use
tiles.
One comment on photographs: don't remap them to a websafe palette.
Hope this helps.
Don
www.donellis.com