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yakisha

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?Web-safe colors? are the set of colors that the three primary browsers,Mosaic, Netscape, and Internet Explorer, use in their browsers, minus 40 colors that are slightly different between Macs and PCs. By eliminating the 40 variable colors, the web-safe palette is optimized for cross-platform use. What do you think ?
 
If you don’t stick with the web-safe palette, nothing blows up. However, some colors will be dithered—in other words, since the browser doesn’t have that color in its set, it tries to match the color by putting pixels of two or more colors next to one another. (This is how paper-based four-color printing works—there are only four colors of ink, but by putting dots of various colors next to one another, your eye is fooled into seeing millions of colors.)
 
For high-resolution screens, dithering may not be much of a problem. But on lower-resolution screens, the pixels start to pop out and cause eyestrain.
 
An often overlooked area is color blindness. Eight percent of males are red green color-blind, which means that, in every room containing 25 men, two will probably be unable to separate red and green elements from one another.
 
The term color-blind is a little misleading.Many men who are color-blind can actually see reds and greens when they are separated. However, when the two colors are next to each other, they tend to melt together and become indistinguishable. What this means in practical terms is that your designs should not use red and green (a) alone, as the only method for indicating meaning; and (b) next to each other (and to browns and blacks) in interfaces.
 
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