When I build a site I tend to do a bit of graphic design (developer style) in Paint.NET, but how do I know the colors will all display properly on all browsers on different machines? What color depth to you generally code for? 16bit 256 colors etc.
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I shamelessly steal lots of color styles from here. I haven't had much trouble with the color schemes on most peoples' computers.
I say this noting that I'm not a web designer, but a programmer who is forced to design webpages on occasion, so take that for what it's worth.
Jason Baker
2008-10-14 00:57:49
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related or possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199378/best-css-color-wheel-sites
warren
2008-10-14 01:01:26
Not really - that question is about recommended sites with a specific color-choosing tool, this is about whether he needs to worry about visitors' color depth when choosing colors.
Herb Caudill
2008-10-14 13:23:25
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I don't worry about whether the colors will display perfectly everywhere, as even the most basic of cell phones support 16-bit color.
In my opinion, the days of having to worry about 'web-safe' colors is mostly over.
As long as you're not using colors incredibly similar to each other, you should be good.
warren
2008-10-14 01:04:13
Unless I'm being stupid, that page doesn't actually provide a download link. Where can I get this plugin?
Marcus Downing
2008-10-14 13:39:59
It looks like it is linux only, sorry. Here is one you can try online:http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php
KPexEA
2008-10-14 14:31:37
Unfortunately, that one failed so badly on the rendering of the first page I tried it on, it was impossible to see the effect it would have on the colour.
Marcus Downing
2008-10-14 23:33:03
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According to w3schools only 2% of visitors still have 256-color displays. If you don't use web colors, they'll just see somewhat different colors from what you intended, so there's not really any reason to stick to web-safe colors, which really limit your choices.
Herb Caudill
2008-10-14 13:27:15
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On a related note: be aware of using png's.
Different image editors (not sure about Paint.NET) embed the so called gamma correction information in the png. This gamma correction info is used by some browsers and makes the png look different than the rgb colors that you expect.
I have personally encountered this problem on several projects where a png transition to a background color was a perfect match in firefox but not in IE.
Best practice is to remove the gamma correction using pngcrush. Which is a good idea anyway since it reduces overall filesize, even when gamma correction is not an issue at hand.
Here's some more info if you fancy some reading: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/png-gamma
Sorry if this sounds kindof offtopic but I just thought I'd mention it to you when using colors and Paint.NET for use on the web.
Martin Kool
2008-10-14 14:22:04