Color Schemes,

Websafe, Named, etc.

[sderenzi]

I was just wondering whom out there uses Websafe colors as oppose to ones that are named or just and #. I am trying to make everything on my site Websafe and that does to a point limit the Color Scheme. So what do you all think?

[pmkpmk]

In my recent site-redesign I stopped doing everything websafe except for the key design- and navigation elements. From my point of view, the web-safe-colors are not necessary anymore.

Other opinions?

[moltar]

I don't think websafe colors ever mattered that much. Nothing bad will happen if use a color that is not "websafe." Old browsers will just substitute that color for a similar one.

[TGecho]

I don't go out of my way to use websafe. As long as people with less than thousands of colors can use my sites without trouble, I'm happy. However I still tend to use nice "round" colors (i.e. colors that can be written with three numbers: #333 = #333333, #123 = #112233)

[pmkpmk]

In my current redesign I used the complementary color of my companies well-established logo color. Thus paired with a neutral gray works great.

#0099ff
#ff9900
#808080

[moltar]

This are some more extensive stats from TheCounter:

(32bit)    - 213399987 - (59%)  
65K (16bit) - 113094251   - (31%)  
16M (24bit) - 24407931   - (6%)  
256 (8bit)  - 5547335   - (1%)  
Unknown    - 509759   - (0%)  
16 (4bit)   - 61038    - (0%)  

[Eric_Jarvis]

what you get from using the "web safe" is no "dithering" (creating a colour by alternating pixels of other colours) on low resolution dsiplsys...so it was never really all that important unless you had a large area of the colour...I still tend to use the "web safe" colours for large areas if I think it's particularly likely to be viewed by a lot of low res systems...but by and large I'm not sure it's worth being hung up on these days

I always use #****xxx to denote the colours...it seems to be the most consistently reliable way to do it

[sderenzi]

It seems my attempt to go Websafe failed anyway. I found myself digging through for colors I felt I wanted rather than ones that were only Websafe. Ah well thanks for the input!