I don't design for 256 colors anymore. Anything above 256 colors does a
good job of dithering to a close enough color that it's fine for my needs.
Even "web safe" colors will render differently on various monitors
anyway for the reason Thane stated. Hell, even turning the brightness up
or down will skew the colors off the "corporate printed colors" much the
same way they would be if they were printed on a brighter or darker paper.
Brian Weeden wrote:
I know this used to be a huge deal several years ago but not sure how
prevalent it is now. It stemmed from the old school systems that could be
limited to only 256 colors so if you chose one that was outside that palette
it would get rendered improperly. Most things now can do 16-bit or higher
color palettes so it's not as much a problem. If you pick a color that
isn't in the palette the system will choose the next closest color that is.
I think you need to take a look at your target audience and see what the
odds are of having them view your website with very old monitors or devices
which were limited to 256 colors. Odds are they will be really low and you
can probably ignore them.
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Brian
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Thane Sherrington <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm working on a website with a graphic designer and he wants to use a
web-safe palette because he feels that will "retain the integrity of the
corporate colours." I'm thinking that it doesn't matter, since every
monitor renders colours a little differently, and unless we had a way to
make people calibrate their monitors, there's no guarantee that the colours
we pick will be identical to the printed marketing materials. What does the
collective think about this?
T
