On 21/10/2004, at 4:34 PM, Andreas Boehmer wrote:
Out of curiosity: what's your stand to the 216 web colours? Do you stick
with them or do you go the full 16 bits?
I personally have stopped limiting myself a long time ago (unless absolutely necessary), but keep coming across articles warning me from doing so.
What's your thoughts?
I ditched them a long time ago -- the reality is that 99% (or greater) of most audiences would be on thousands as a base. However, I'm careful about the contrast difference between non-safe objects, so that if a device "rounds" the colors to part of the 216 pallet, it would round one up, and one down, creating contrast, rather than rounding both to the same safe color.
It's not an exact science at all, but I would never set a copyright notice or mission critical text in something with low contrast to it's background (like a very light grey on white), because that's just asking for trouble.
An interesting side-note is the introduction of hand-helds... sure, most PCs might be running millions of colors these days, but are all those mobiles and PDA's? I bet they aren't :)
Justin
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