![]() Help contentsWhat are web safe colors?How to use WSCC The options window Minimum system requirements Hex values and color names Contact the author What are web safe colors?We all want our web pages to look as good as possible, right? As a web designer, you probably have a monitor and graphics card which can display thousands, if not millions of colors. Unfortunately, this is not true for the rest of the surfing universe. There are a lot of web users out there who are stuck with 256-color monitors. So, if your web site uses colors their monitor cannot display, they will not see the colors you have chosen but a substitute color, or even a mix of two other colors. So you can wave goodbye to all those tedious hours you spent making your colors beautiful...
How to use the Web Safe Color ChartThe main screen of WSCC is divided into three sections: a control panel along the top, an information panel down the left and the color chart itself.
The basic idea is that, if you click on a color in the color chart, the information panel will display that color, as well as its hexadecimal value and HTML 4.0 color name. The control panel lets you toggle between text and background color, so you can try out different color combinations: if background is active the color you click on will be displayed in the background; if text is active it will be displayed as text.
The options window
You can click on 'options' in the control panel to set your preferences. The values you can set are:
This last option requires that cookies be activated to function properly; if you disactivate cookies the program will use the default values at the beginning of each session.
Minimum system requirements
The Web Safe Color Chart requires a browser which is capable of displaying frames and which can run JavaScript 1.1. In practice, that means Netscape Navigator 3 or above, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or above, or another equivalent browser. If your browser cannot run WSCC, we recommend that you download the latest version of Navigator or Explorer.
Hex values and color names
When a color is displayed by The Web Safe Color Chart, two pieces of information are given: the hex value and the color name. To understand these values, you need to know a little about how HTML describes colors.
Contact the author
First of all, let me thank you for choosing and using the Web Safe Color Chart. I hope it makes your life easier, and your web pages better. If you have any comments on WSCC - praise, criticism, bugs, ideas, suggestions, I can take them all - please send me an email or fill out the feedback form; anything helpful will be taken into consideration for future versions of the program. Happy colorin'!
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