What are web safe colors?

Web Safe, or Browser Safe colours consist of 216 colors that display non-dithered, consistent colour on any computer or device capable of displaying 8-bit color. Web / Browser safe colours were defined in 1996 when the majority of computers had 8-bit cards. Today that figure is around 3% and falling.

What do Web colors mean?

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to their common English names in some cases.

What is a standard Web colors?

Tip: The 17 standard colors are: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, orange, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. All browsers support these 147 colors. Most browsers that are available today.

Do I need to use web safe colors?

Even modern phones, iPods and tablets can display more colors than the monitors of the early 90s, so there really is no need to stick with the web-safe palette anymore (unless you’re working for a client with a REALLY old computer who insists everything looks good on it).

What are the colors of web safe colors?

Web safe colors are formed by the combination of red, green and blue (RGB) hex values of 0,33H,66H,99H,CCH,FFH. This results with 6*6*6=216 colors.

How are the colors of the web represented?

Web colors are represented as different intensities of red, blue, and green. The intensities are value from 1 to 255 and are written in three sets, one set for each color, indicating an intensity of red, blue or green. For example tan is represented as d2 b4 8c in hex code or 210 180 140 in decimal code.

What is the maxmium value for web safe colors?

So for rgb (51, 104, 102), 51 is the red value, 104 is the green value, and 102 is the blue value. These three numbers are in standard base 10 decimal and combine to form the actual color that is displayed on screen. The minimum value for number is 0 and the maxmium value is 255 (this allows for 256 possibile values for red, green, and blue).

Are there safe color names in CSS 2.1?

With today’s computers and browsers there are over 16 million colors available, web safe colors are not a concern as they were in the past. But if you want to use color names in building websites we have included the web safe color names in the CSS 2.1 color name chart below.