Comments on: Websafe Colour Scheme Generator

By: olivia

olivia — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:59:58 +0000

It depends on your target audience’s age-group and geographic location. I very rarely design coloursafe sites. And as you can see, this site isn’t coloursafe. For good reason.

By: nathan

nathan — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 01:15:01 +0000

Yes, but to restrict yourself to color safe monitors for those five people who haven’t purchased a monitor in the last 10 years, well, that’s not the sort of thing that I’m looking to partake in.

There needs to be a certain amount of driving force behind keeping the public current. If they’re not willing to keep their machines within the decade, that’s their choice, but they should expect to suffer for it a bit.

I suggest we bite their toes off.

By: olivia

olivia — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:42:52 +0000

The idea behind websafe colours is that older monitors and graphics cards that only display 256 colours, as well as handhelds, wont show weird dithering and gaps. If you’ve ever seen how horrendous it looks on one of those monitors, youd know what I mean. Think, Windows 3.11. Remember those grotty colours and the crosshairs?

By: nathan

nathan — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:37:36 +0000

Word on the street is that websafe colors are a lie.

Don’t believe a word of it. You can recreate pretty much any color that comes out of Photoshop on the Internet.

I can, anyway.