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I do like these, however, I'd be very cautious about replacing such universal defaults as I am sure there are very specific reasons why these very shades where
by canterburry 12y ago
I do like these, however, I'd be very cautious about replacing such universal defaults as I am sure there are very specific reasons why these very shades where chosen.
I am quite certain hundreds of hours of testing went into picking these shaded given different monitors and devices available....in the 90's.
- mcmillion 12y agoDoubtful. The standard colors are all just mixes of RGB at varying degrees (ff/255, 7f/127, etc).
- barkingcat 12y agoI don't think hundreds of hours of testing went into anything for the html spec back in the 90's. Things were quite ad hoc in the early days! That said, there were probably specific reasons why those colors were chosen, reasons that might not make so much sense today. Oh I remember - it's to fit into the 256 colour palette of gifs and old school graphics adapters that can't store too many bits! If you wanted more colours, you had to swap out the pallette. I don't think that applies today anymore, even on the most basic computers.
- emddudley 12y agoI am pretty sure the only reasoning behind the original colors was that they are mathematically nice. Like #FF0000 for red and #008080 for teal (with the exception of orange, which wasn't one of the original 16). The colors were not chosen for aesthetics, that is for sure.
- Aldo_MX 12y agoIn the 90's you could barely afford a 256-color capable graphic card, this is why a Web-Safe color palette exists[1]. There were no "hours testing", they just picked the colors that were used by the most popular browsers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors