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media type="custom" key="12126358"Web Safe Colors : Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Colors may be specified as an [|RGB]in [|hexadecimal] format. Often a [|color tool] or other [|graphics software] is used to generate color values. The 256 colors were determined by a mathematical formula. These colors needed to be described in no more than 8 bits of computer information, which by no coincidence is 256. The colors in this basic palette would display solid on specific platform's monitors that were capable of displaying 256 colors. Virtually all graphics programs and web development environments provide their own versions of the web-safe palette. RGB codes for web-safe colors are made up of the digit zero plus the other hex digits that are multiples of three: 3, 6, 9, C (12), and F (15). Virtually all graphics programs and web development environments provide their own versions of the web-safe palette. Unfortunately, the web-safe palette is severely restrictive, especially when it comes to providing the subtler, more sophisticated colors that many designers crave. So what happens if you choose to use a color that is not web-safe? If a visitor has a system powerful enough to see that particular color, the color displays properly. If not, the browser does one of two things: either it uses its best judgment to shift the color to the nearest color that it does recognize, or it dithers the color.

The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.

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