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Visibone Adds "Unsafe" Color Chart
proub writes "If you're one of the zillions of designers who love your Visibone web-safe-palette mouse pads or posters, thought I'd mention that they seem to have added an "unsafe palette" poster as well. If you haven't seen them before, suffice to say it's a great way to find safe color combinations that work (the Color Lab doesn't suck, either). I refer to the web-palette poster constantly when doing www work, nice to have a similar version for GUI design where you have the whole big messy world of colors available."
How is a list of unsafe colors going to help you more than a safe color palette?
And why are these so freaking popular? Lets see...
Just do what I did and do a search on google for "web safe colors"...
It turns up tons of pages like This One...
And in this case, it is simply much easier to look up the color you want and just do a Copy and Paste...
The other thing I don't quite get with this is that it if you use a web page with the "safe color" palette to find colors, wouldn't that be a more accurate interpretation of the end result (monitor instead of a poster)?
I know some ppl claim they are helpful...however, I personally think they are just an excuse for a decoration.
By all means, if you want a poster to hang on your wall, go for it...as for me, I'm gonna save the $$$ and use a web page...