Web Safe color palette options?

Is there a web-safe color palette available? While the palette is listed in the Uniform Color dialog box, I see no such palette for display on the interface. Alternatively, is there a tool for analyzing colors on the page and converting to closest web safe colors?

 

Thanks,
Pradhan

wrote in message news:39707@coreldraw.com...
> Is there a web-safe color palette available? While the palette is listed
> in the Uniform Color dialog box, I see no such palette for display on the
> interface. Alternatively, is there a tool for analyzing colors on the page
> and converting to closest web safe colors?
>

The concept of a "web-safe" palette is pretty much dead (it never was
"real", IMO). Wired/webMonky had a great article back in 2000 called The
Death of the Websafe Color Palette (they've redone their site and it's no
longer available unfortunately there... however, archive.org has a copy of
it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20001019002534/hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html)

So, really, there is no such thing as a "web-safe" color. Just use RGB
colors and you'll be fine.

Thanks...in fact, I presumed because Constant Contact (a web based e-mail service) spec'd colors using HEX, that they were only web safe colors. I did not know that RGB can be spec'd in HEX. In researching, I found this cool site http://www.colorcop.net./ specifically for this purpose. Thanks for erasing old info in my brain and replacing it with new.

Thanks so much.

Pradhan

wrote in message news:39715@coreldraw.com...
> Thanks...in fact, I presumed because Constant Contact (a web based e-mail
> service) spec'd colors using HEX, that they were only web safe colors. I
> did not know that RGB can be spec'd in HEX. In researching, I found this
> cool site http://www.colorcop.net./ specifically for this purpose. Thanks
> for erasing old info in my brain and replacing it with new.
>

well, that's kind of a misconception... RGB *is* HEX / HEX *is* RGB - they
are exactly the same. The only difference is that one has the color values
shown in a decimal format (our regular "number" system, Base 10) and one is
shown in a hexadecimal format (base 8 - if I'm remembering correctly).

For example in RGB the color white is referenced as R:255 G:255 B:255. If
you open up the calculator that comes with Windows and change your "view"
from Standard to Scientific type in 255 and have the Dec radio button
checked. After you enter in that 255 value, just click on the Hex radio
button. You'll see that the value is "translated" into hexadecimal. 255 =
FF. Hexadecimal color values are referenced in 6-character amounts. Each
group of 2 characters is the value of Red, Green, or Blue (in that order -
the first 2 characters are Red, the second 2 are Green, the last 2 are
Blue). So in HEX, the color white would look like #FFFFFF.

Another way to look at it... the HEX value of #336699 can be broken down to
33, 66, and 99. In this case, H:33 = R51; H:66 = G:102; H:99 = B:153. In
Corel "color terms" that's Desert Blue.

Hunter:

wrote in message news:39715@coreldraw.com...
well, that's kind of a misconception... RGB *is* HEX / HEX *is* RGB - they
are exactly the same. The only difference is that one has the color values
shown in a decimal format (our regular "number" system, Base 10) and one is
shown in a hexadecimal format (base 8 - if I'm remembering correctly).

 

 

Minor correction; Hexadecimal is base 16. Octal is base 8.

wrote in message news:39719@coreldraw.com...
> Hunter:wrote in message news:39715@coreldraw.com...
> well, that's kind of a misconception... RGB *is* HEX / HEX *is* RGB - they
> are exactly the same. The only difference is that one has the color values
> shown in a decimal format (our regular "number" system, Base 10) and one
> is
> shown in a hexadecimal format (base 8 - if I'm remembering correctly).
>
>
>
> Minor correction; Hexadecimal is base 16. Octal is base 8.

heh thanks for the correction! I figured I had the "base" numbers wrong.

This tool helps alot for web designers who need to work with hex values inside CorelDRAW. Watch the video to see it work.

Pradhan:

I did not know that RGB can be spec'd in HEX.

Hunter:

it never was "real", IMO

Web colors from Wikipedia.

wrote in message news:39826@coreldraw.com...
> Hunter:it never was "real", IMO
Web colors from Wikipedia.
>

Oh, I know the "concept" was popular, but that's why I said "IMO" (i.e. In
My Opinion). I've been doing websites since '95 and I've never used a
"websafe palette" - in fact, I can't say I've run into someone using less
than 16-bit color depth since the early '90s.

And especially in these days, "websafe" colors are a non-issue. (as an
aside, since there is really no attempt for true fact-checking and pretty
much anyone can go edit a wikipedia entry, I would never cite them as a
valid reference)

Hunter:

Ahmad Ajlouny:

Hunter:

it never was "real", IMO

Web colors from Wikipedia.

Oh, I know the "concept" was popular, but that's why I said "IMO" (i.e. In My Opinion). I've been doing websites since '95 and I've never used a "websafe palette" - in fact, I can't say I've run into someone using less than 16-bit color depth since the early '90s.

In the linked page

Volunteers, from all around the world, collaboratively wrote their opinions, and they wrote when the web-safe palette was developed, explained why it was needed, wrote when it has fallen into practical disuse and explained why.

Plus

1. More details
2. References
3. See also
4. External links

Minus

1. Contributors' years of "experience" or age
   

About Wikipedia

Read About Wikipedia – one of the largest Reference Websites. You will find

1. Link to Wikipedia's editing policies
2. How "anybody can contribute" makes Wikipedia different from other references

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1. A lot of details
2. See also
3. Further readings
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Hunter:

that's why I said "IMO" (i.e. In My Opinion)...
... anyone can go edit a wikipedia entry, I would never cite them as a valid reference

More details: IMO from Wikipedia – The Invalid Reference.

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See also again

1. Web-safe colors under Web colors from Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia