Thursday, September 19, 2013

Web Safe Colors

    Colors are simply the way our brain interprets electromagnetic radiation within the color spectrum. Computers trick our minds by making groups of 3 by 3 dots of green, blue, and red so close together that our minds will usually trick itself into believing it is seeing a canvas of color, not dots. Any color in the spectrum can be generated this way, by having 256 shades/variations for each color, you can generate anywhere within 16,777,216 different colors that then can display in groups of dots for your brain to see. By doing this you can see what you are doing on computers, and makes them usable and easy to change the colors you see or the text you see. Even this text is made of tiny dots arranged to show my ideas, but there are such things as web safe colors which can be used on the web. These are specialized colors that can be used on websites internationally, other colors only some can see, which can make big problems for web designers and anyone wanting to make a website. This is why you should always use web safe colors on your pages.

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