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Using Web-safe colors


The Web-safe colors are the 216 colors used by browsers regardless of the platform. The browser will change all colors in the image to these colors when displaying the color on an 8-bit screen. The 216 colors are a subset of the Mac OS 8-bit color palettes. By working only with these colors, you can be sure that art you prepare for the Web will not dither on a system set to display in 256 colors.

To identify Web-safe colors in the Adobe Color Picker:
  • Click the Only Web Colors option in the lower left corner of the color picker, and then choose any color in the color picker. Any color you pick with this option selected is Web-safe.
  • Choose a color in the color picker. If you choose a non-Web color, an alert cube () appears next to the color rectangle in the color picker. Click the alert cube to select the closest Web color. (If no alert cube appears, the color you chose is Web-safe.)

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