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 subscribe to the More Crayons school of thought:
http://www.morecrayons.com/
That gives me 4,096 colours while also allowing me to predict *how* they will degrade (they will dither to nearest web-safe colour) on older displays.
Basically, what it boils down to is that in my CSS my shades of grey, for example, aren't limited to just:
#333, #666, #999, etc.
I also have colours like:
#444, #888, #bbb, etc.
The same applies to any other colours:
#83b, #2f5, #456, etc.
In fact, the CSS shorthand way of writing hex values is tailor made for using the more crayons technique.
-- Jeremy Keith
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