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Browser Window Ruler -
Browser-Safe Color Palette -
These are the 216 colors that are common to most system palettes, and will display relatively the same regardless of environment. They are the colors recommended for setting background and text colors, as well as for optimizing some kinds of web images (such as illustrations containing flat areas of color). A browser-safe color can be recognized by its hexadecimal number, which only contains combinations of 00,33,66,99,CC, or FF.
HTML Text Color Names -
This is a chart of text color names that may be used in HTML. Except for the group of
colors at the top of the page, these colors are NOT in the 216 color palette shown
in the page above. Their use is NOT recommended, but they are here for reference,
should one choose to use them.
"Hybrid-Safe" Colors -
This is a small library of swatches that can be used to simulate a solid color not found in the 216-color palette. They can be used as tiled background images to simulate a solid-color background, or the pattern can be used as a fill in an illustration when the desired color is not browser-safe. More of these swatches will be added as they are needed.
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