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Web Safe Colors
What are Web-Safe colors?
In 1994, when Netscape initiated a solution to a problem with graphics operating systems that web browsers had just made much worse. Many computers at that time could only display 256 colors at a time.
"Lime" or #00FF00
"Purple" or #800080
"Aqua" or #00FFFF
"Maroon" or #800000
'Olive" or #808000
"Silver" or #C0C0C0
''Teal" or #008080
"Gray" or #80808
"Fuchsia" or #FF00FF
'Navy" or #000080
"Blue" or #0000FF
"Yellow" or #FFFF00
"Green" or #008000
"White" or #FFFFFF
"Red" or #FF0000
"Black" or #000000
<P>
<FONT SIZE="6" >
<FONT COLOR="AQUA" >AQUA</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="BLUE"> BLUE </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="FUCHSIA" >FUCHSIA</FONT>
<br />
<FONT COLOR="GRAY">GRAY </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="GREEN" >GREEN</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="LIME">LIME </FONT>
<br />
<FONT COLOR="MAROON" >MAROON</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="NAVY">NAVY </FONT>
<br />
<FONT COLOR="OLIVE" >OLIVE</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="PURPLE">PURPLE </FONT>
<br />
<FONT COLOR="RED" >RED</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="SILVER">SILVER </FONT>
<br />
<FONT COLOR="TEAL" >TEAL</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="YELLOW">YELLOW</FONT>
</FONT>
</P>
AQUA
BLUE
FUCHSIA
GRAY
GREEN
LIME
MAROON
NAVY
OLIVE
PURPLE
RED
SILVER
TEAL
YELLOW
- The following is an example of specifying font colors using color names (omitting black and white):
The choice of those colors was the choice of the application developers, and then, of web site designers.
When more than one program or web page or web image was visible on the screen at a time, and the colors they displayed totaled more than 256, there was chaos. Users would often see color very distorted.
Netscape defined a set of 216 colors (See the 216 Web Safe Colors Chart) that would have priority, 6 levels each of red, green and blue, evenly spaced throughout the RGB color space.
Web pages that used those colors exclusively would have a much better chance of looking right. Instead of always using the Hexidecimal code, you can also use the color 'names' for some window's colors.
- 16 Windows color 'names' with their Hex codes that you can use in HTML rather than the hex code:
