Colors

[Brett_Tabke]

From my computer.com Monitor Colors

65,536 (16-bit)	51.5%
16 million (32-bit)	23.7%
16 million (24-bit)	9.8%
Not specified	9.5%
256 (8-bit)	5.2%
16 (4-bit)	0.2%
4 (2-bit)	0.02%

[tedster]

A couple of comments.

First, my big irritation with designers who hand over work they never viewed in 16 bit -- the color shifts can be really rugged. Colors in foreground images and background images may not match on many browsers, and hex defined bgcolor is often a mismatch as well.

Second, for most practical purposes 24 bit and 32 bit color depth are the same right now. It's just that 32 bit includes an 8 bit alpha channel, useful for designating degrees of transparency (in PNG images, for example). However, major the browsers still aren't up to supporting this very well, as far as I know.

[grnidone]

What is 2 bit color? (Black AND white?) *LOL*

Seriously, though, I have never heard of that. Is that used for PDA's?

-G