Web Safe Colors

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    The problems with the web-safe pallette have nothing to do with the reolution (800x600) or the type of display (LCD vs CRT).

    Rather, it has to do with teh fact that if your *video card* is set to display 16 or 24 bit color, it can't render most of the web safe colors accurately.

    Lynda Weinman (often credited with INVENTING the web-safe pallette) acknowledges that it's time has passed - even as a limited color set to choose from (right here).

    "The browser-safe palette was developed by programmers with no design sense, I assure you. That's because a designer would have never picked these colors. Mostly, the palette contains far less light and dark colors than I wish it did, and is heavy on highly saturated colors and low on muted, tinted or toned colors." - Lynda Weinman

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