Color table for Ryan F
Some colors work better than others when you're setting up graphics
for a WebPage. Your best bet is to stick with the NetScape 216 color
palette (to avoid ugliness and dithering by the browser). An easy way
to tell whether or not the color is "browser safe" is to make sure that
the only digits in the #RRGGBB triplet thingy are always multiples
of 51 (33 in hexadecimal). That means that the hex values will only be
made up of 0, 3, 6, 9, C, and F. Stick to 00, 33, 66, 99, CC and FF
(multiples of 0x33) or, in decimal, 0, 51, 102, 153, 205 and 255
(multiples of 51). If you like, you're free to use any of the 16.7 MILLION
(256^3=16,777,216) colors but the 216 are usually enough for anything you
might want to put out on the WWW.
This is slightly rearranged to make things load faster!
There are two new tables of the 216 colors (TABLE1
and TABLE2) and then there's the old (honkin')
GIF file of the colors.
Here's a small gif file (6,641 bytes) that contains the 216 colors. You can
save the file and use its palette when you create graphics for the web! That's
what I usually do and it works pretty well for me.
[Browser-Safe] Color Cube
Of course, you can go ahead and experiment with all of the 16.7 million different
(RGB) codes and see what colors you get. Each RGB byte can take any value from
0x00=0 to 0xFF=255 (giving you 256 settings for each of the 3 bytes). I remember
when a box of 64 crayolas was a major luxury and the 128 crayola box was completely
out of reach so 216 colors are much more than enough for me! (hahaha).
Well, I could just go on and on all day about this (but I don't want to start
sounding like Leo Laporte, now, do I?). If you have a question ... ICQ me (or
ZDTV Me).
