web safe colours
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- antoine_101
mainly a print designer here...
just wanna check - should you still only use web safe colours for designing for web?thankyou
- twopointoh0
if you're a fucking alien, yes.
- ninjasavant0
I don't concern myself with it. The only time I do is when the save for web dialog makes crappy looking images, then I increase the amount of colors in the gif or png in that dialog.
But the whole notion of websafe is a moot point now.
- version30
if you can't choose from 256 colors, what more do you need?
- antoine_1010
so I can use the rgb sliders and just make my own colour then?
or should I just stick to the web safe sliders in illy?
sorry if I seem darfed but i dont do web design and im doing my personal portfolio, mainly do print here...
- Nairn0
i haven't bothered with the 216 websafe colours for a few years now, unless it's the simplest lil shitty html thing.
besides, i kinda like how full-colour websites render in low colour setups.
- Witt0
web-safe were important once, for 256 colour outputs (8-bit) but is nothing very important now, since most people use jpeg and have 32-bit displays.
but it still lets you safe about the 40 colour difference that exists between mac/pc platforms (that can make a gif image render differently, eg), or when you're working with css and rollover highlighting of links, etc. But the difference is almost irrelevant in most cases.
you can check the difference between full-colour and safe here (check the 'reduce to web-safe' checkbox on top):
- Dancer0
unless the colour is very close to the web safe I don't bother either (print designer here too).
If it is for border's I use websafe just c=because I know they are going to be vivid.
Other than that use the # code in the picker window.
p.s try and put your site together in PS as the rendering is at 72 dpi and truer to what you are going to preoduce.
- Witt0