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Can anyone remember 'web safe colours'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors In t
by Theodores 7y ago
Can anyone remember 'web safe colours'?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors
In the days when you could even get an SGI workstation with 8 bit colours the 'web safe colours' was a safe bet.
I very much like the colour names, although some are way off. In particular 'chocolate' is more orange than chocolate coloured.
I also like the 'black' and 'white' easy colours rather than the hex codes even if it is one or two more bytes.
- jandrese 7y agoThe old X11 rgb.txt has a lot of historical choices that are dubious today. Randall Monroe built a "better" one[1] from crowdsourced data on the internet, but even he admits that it's too late to change. [1] https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
- Theodores 7y ago"Fuchsia" seems a problem colour. Funny to think Google are using the least well spelt colour for their operating system project.