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July 11, 2003
Browser-safe palette
Are people still worrying about browser-safe palettes? Maybe I'm out of touch, but to some extent, it's hard to believe. I did an article back in 1997 for STC's magazine Intercom ("Coming to Grips with WWW Color") , and at that time, I provided a long explanation about the hardware and software issues related to web color. My advice at the time was to relax your expectations about web color...trying to match some specific PMS color was enough to drive anyone insane. Anyways, the folks at Poynter Online are talking about a site called moreCrayons for those folks who are still trying to do browser-safe colors. It's a fun site and extremely well done, so if you like to play with colors, by all means check it out. But are there really folks who still worry about browser safe? I find it hard to worry about that given the wall of TVs at Best Buy or Circuit City. All those different hues for the same programming? I think that giving up any ideas about color consistency online is the way one can enjoy life more :).
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I threw out my browser-safe palette a long, long time ago. I also can't imagine anybody still worrying/thinking about that. Some clients will still mention it on rare occasions since it was the buzz at the height of Web design but it desn't take long to talk them off that ledge... -- Posted by Jonathan on July 12, 2003 12:20 PM
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