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Web Site Color Charts

Each color that a web browser can display is named by a string of six digits or letters. You can use it to communicate your choices to a web site designer. For example, you might say, "Hey, Mike, I would like to see how it looks if we had words in color 009900, on a background of ffcc66 , or maybe we can try cc0033 against a background of ff99cc !" If you tell me that over the phone, or by e-mail, it's easy to take quick look at what the effect would be.

In color chart #1, you will find a chart of the 216 "safe" colors that display properly on all brands and models of computer monitors.

Do you really have to limit yourself to those 216 "safe" colors? Increasingly, the answer is no. The question is: how new are the monitor and video card of the typical visitor to your site? Modern monitors and video cards support more than sixteen million colors. Every year, the probability of a site visitor encountering a problem when viewing any shade in the full spectrum further dwindles. In case you would like to use these popular shades, color chart 2 displays the shades which have been assigned names by browser developers.