Joy wrote:
I don't think the information about web-safe colors is at all dated.
You don't have to worry about it *much*, nowadays, but the unsafe
colors he showed were not distinguishable to the naked eye from the
safe colors. If you are, for example, color-coding a lace diagram,
why not pick colors that will come through bright and clear to the
backwoods orphan using a hand-me-down monitor? It might even be
easier to choose clearly-contrasting colors from a limited palette.
There's not much harm choosing from the 216-palette (aka web-safe) if
it has the colours that you want, but there's no virtue in sticking
to it for the sake of people with old monitors. Someone with a
hand-me down monitor is more likely to only be able to see (or have
the monitor set at) thousands of colours rather than only 256.
Trouble is that those thousand do *not* include the 216 - Honestly!
I was surprised a bit at his comments on Mac vs. PC monitors -- I
hadn't been aware that there was enough uniformity in monitor
settings for such a slight difference to show up.
There definitely is. I discovered this the hard way when I first
launched The Lace Guild website back in 1997. Gary Peach, who used to
contribute to the list took me to task about it. Sometimes I look at
my pages on PCs at work and realize that my images are still too
dark. I've been using a little piece of free Mac software called
GammaToggle <http://www.thankyouware.com/gammatoggle.html> for years
to emulate the PC gamma on my Mac, and then adjust the brightness as
a compromise between Mac and PC gamma. Both Adobe's ImageReady and
Macromedia's Fireworks (web graphics manipulation software) have
inbuilt facilities for doing this, so they believe in it too.
Supposedly the png graphic format has the capability of compensating
for this but its current implementation in Internet Explorer does not
take advantage of this. (I don't understand this well enough to
explain further, but there are some articles on the web.)
David
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Jean Leader
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Lace Guild web site: http://www.laceguild.org
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