Does anyone know of a way to see if your webpage has web safe colors?
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mairving posted this at 02:13 — 2nd January 2002.
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As a general rule, your websafe colors will be like this:
So valid colors will be FF0000, 666666, CCFFFF, etc.
Invalid colors will be F90000, EEEEEE, CCFFEE, etc.
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Megan posted this at 02:19 — 2nd January 2002.
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You can also try turning your colour settings down to 256 Colours and see if it looks the same as it did before.
Just as a side note - you'll probably find that very few of your visitors are using 256 colours or less - those are the only people who are affected by the web safe colour limitation really.
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Busy posted this at 06:48 — 2nd January 2002.
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If you do want to use non web safe colors for backgrounds, lines etc just make a 10x10, 20x20 square of the color you want and use it as a background.
A plain color wont distort much (within reason)
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andilinks posted this at 18:12 — 19th October 2003.
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Which browsers cannot use "unsafe" colors and won't the "unsafe" color simply render as the nearest "safe" one? I have checked my site with IE6, Opera7 and Mozilla which is what 75% of my visitors use, and I think IE5 will render unsafe colors as well and that's another 20% of my visitors.
I think I'd prefer to design for the 95% and let the rest make do with the default color.
Is there some flaw in this reasoning?
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Suzanne posted this at 18:21 — 19th October 2003.
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There is no reason to stick to websafe anymore for most websites -- if you're creating solely for low-end PDAs, then perhaps.
This is what the expert has to say about it: http://www.lynda.com/hex.html
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andilinks posted this at 18:33 — 19th October 2003.
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Thanks for the quick answer.
Andi