March 4, 200818 yr Hi Guys, I have been looking for a good chart of web safe colours that I can use for reference. Do any of you have such a chart or know of where to find one? Many thanks
March 4, 200818 yr I've been looking for one of these myself. SitePoint used to do them, but I can't seem to find it anymore!
March 4, 200818 yr http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm but this one is better http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/color_codes/
March 4, 200818 yr Did you try googling it? http://www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm http://www.lynda.com/hex.asp http://www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/websafe.shtm http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors As of 2007, personal computers typically have at least 16-bit color and usually 24-bit (TrueColor). Even mobile devices have at least 16-bit color, driven by the inclusion of cameras on cellphones. The use of "web-safe" colors has fallen into practical disuse, but persisted in culture.
March 4, 200818 yr Nice links. My request was more for a hex colour chart, rather than websafe. Should have mentioned that really.
March 4, 200818 yr Do you have any idea how many hex colours there are?! You can pick any six from the following: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F. Any six. That's like... millions! No one will list that in a chart. http://www.free-webmaster-tools.com/colorpicker.htm http://www.pagetutor.com/colorpicker/index.html Photoshop?
March 4, 200818 yr Author Great! thank you for the links guys! @Rachael, hexadecimal = lots of colours = WOW! I didn't realise!
March 4, 200818 yr Yep. There's millions of colours out there. I wouldn't worry *too* much about using a "web safe" palette these days. Most, if not all, screens can handle more than 16 colours. Putting a .jpeg on your site pretty much blows the "web safe" palette out of the water.
March 4, 200818 yr Author Yep. There's millions of colours out there. I wouldn't worry *too* much about using a "web safe" palette these days. Most, if not all, screens can handle more than 16 colours. Putting a .jpeg on your site pretty much blows the "web safe" palette out of the water. Thats true - I was using web safe just as a general term really. Thanks for the links.
March 4, 200818 yr Do you have any idea how many hex colours there are?! You can pick any six from the following: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F. Any six. That's like... millions! No one will list that in a chart. http://www.free-webmaster-tools.com/colorpicker.htm http://www.pagetutor.com/colorpicker/index.html Photoshop? There are some charts out there, trust me. They are absolutely massive though! haha
March 4, 200818 yr Not directly related but AI-Smartcolour is a neat little app http://www.isotton.com/software/windows/smartcolor/ It may be old but it has some uses!
March 4, 200818 yr Its off topic but I like your submitted Web of the Month site Rob! Thanks! It's probably best to keep it in the dedicated thread for the website of the month, though.
March 4, 200818 yr Author Not directly related but AI-Smartcolour is a neat little app http://www.isotton.com/software/windows/smartcolor/ It may be old but it has some uses! Cheers - il check it out.
March 4, 200818 yr Thanks! It's probably best to keep it in the dedicated thread for the website of the month, though. yes...tut tut duck, going off topic like that, no one ever does that in a thread on this forum....really they don't
March 4, 200818 yr The meaning of life is a web-safe colour chart! Omg, it's all starting to make sense now!!
March 4, 200818 yr Yes! How lost you must have been before you knew of the web-safe colour charts. Welcome to the enlightened.
March 4, 200818 yr The meaning of life is a web-safe colour chart! OOOOh you could get me started on something deep and meaningful with a statement like that!
March 4, 200818 yr *Shameless plug* My colour picker tool, which is half finished, has websafe, named and advanced colour pickers. http://www.adella.co.uk/dhtml/pages/colorschemer.html - Eris
March 5, 200818 yr You can buy these off ebay pre-printed and obvioudly they are true colours rather than what output your printer decided to print them like.
March 5, 200818 yr Websafe colours? I wouldn't bother if you intend to support some really really REALLY old browsers.
March 7, 200818 yr Author Websafe colours? I wouldn't bother if you intend to support some really really REALLY old browsers. I just wrote Web Safe colours just as a figure of speech - RGB colour chart would have been more accurate.
March 7, 200818 yr I just wrote Web Safe colours just as a figure of speech - RGB colour chart would have been more accurate. There are loads of colours so an RGB colour chart would be pages and pages long....I would just stick with ErisDS *shameless plug* of her colour tool, or even adobe kuler would be more useful that pages of RGB colour shades.
March 7, 200818 yr I'd want one, more as a starting point, and nice poster. Rather than a particularly useful tool. This Sitepoint poster is the sort of thing I'm after, just larger
March 7, 200818 yr Photoshop has a built in one of these. Just go into the colour palette and tick the 'Web Safe Colour' box. There you have it, all the web safe colours!
March 7, 200818 yr You can buy these off ebay pre-printed and obvioudly they are true colours rather than what output your printer decided to print them like. Call me stupid but I did a bunch of searches and came up empty, can you help? (you don't have to call me stupid though, honest ) Thanks
March 8, 200818 yr Author I'd want one, more as a starting point, and nice poster. Rather than a particularly useful tool. This Sitepoint poster is the sort of thing I'm after, just larger Would look nice on the ol office wall - nice bit of colour to really 'bring the room 'together'
June 27, 200818 yr colorzilla for FF3 is a great little app that helps you find the right color on a page in rgb cymk and hex.
June 27, 200818 yr Author colorzilla for FF3 is a great little app that helps you find the right color on a page in rgb cymk and hex. AAAAAH! dont talk to me about FF3!!! I use colorzilla now - its such a good tool! one of my fave extensions.
June 27, 200818 yr Do you have any idea how many hex colours there are?! You can pick any six from the following: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F. Any six. That's like... millions! No one will list that in a chart. 16,777,216 to be exact. 166
June 27, 200818 yr Author web safe? what's that? http://kuler.adobe.com Kuler has to be one of the sexiest apps out! I like the AIR version for desktop
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