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Color Hoax

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I was sitting on the throne about an hour ago and was reading my first HTML book. I came across the section on Web Safe colors, and thought what a crock of…..oh wait I am sitting on one.

So, getting back to color. I think I will call this the color hoax. I cannot see, who in the world is still designing with only 216 colors. This makes no sense at all. With gradients, rich colors and integrated graphics cards cable of supporting millions of colors, I think this is really pointless. Although in every image editing software package I have used, I find the palette of web safe colors.I am not sure I see the point aside from paying homage to days gone by.

I am sure these colors were picked by non-designers. No designer would have picked them, as they are not only limited, but lacking. Oh, well nothing to sweat really.

So what does the rest of the world think? I did a quick poll over my buddy list on MSN, and no one seemed to care.

Arnold


Posted in General on October 28th, 2006

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