How many browser safe colors are there

Skip to: content search login. Knowledge Base Toggle local menu Menus About the team. Knowledge Base Search. Log in. Options Help Chat with a consultant. The Green value for FF is 00 no green. The Blue value for FF is 99 some blue, but there's less blue tint than the red tint. How about trying to create an orange? Adding more red tints than green tints will produce orange. As the tint decreases, the colors becomes closer to black, as you seen in the case of CC dark orange - brown.

It may seem very complicated, but it's actually not. It's very similar to the decimal numbering system. The difference is that in decimal, a single digit is always between 0 to 9; but in hex system, a single digit can be between 0 to Since the alphanumeric character goes only up to 9, hex system uses the alphabet A through F to represent 10 to 15, such as below:.

For example: Decimal 0 is equal to 0 in hex. Decimal 5 is equal to 5 in hex. Decimal 10 is equal to A in hex. Decimal 15 is equal to F in hex. Decimal 16 is equal to 10 in hex. Decimal 17 is equal to 11 in hex. Decimal is equal to FF in hex. Noting this difference, hopefully you can see why decimal is is sometimes also referred as base 10 numbering system, and hexadecimal is base 16 numbering system.

FYI: Most scientific calculator has a function to convert decimal to hex and vice versa. Even Windows Calculator has this capability. This is an actual size snapshot. The background color of the image has the same color value as the background color of the cell; they should have been displayed with the same color, but they aren't.

When zoomed in, there does not appear to be any dithering, but clearly there are some shift in the colors. This is actual size, the edges aren't as visible as in Netscape 4.

The browser-safe color palette is a solution devised by Netscape to solve the problem of displaying color graphics in a similar way on many kinds of display screens, with browsers running under different operating systems such as Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX.

Because a majority of the Web audience years ago had 8-bit display screens, colors was the upper limit for the color palette. But the various versions of the Windows operating system which currently represent about 95 percent of the microcomputer market reserve 40 colors for displaying such graphic interface elements as windows, menus, screen wallpaper, icons, and buttons, which leaves just colors to display everything else.

The colors chosen by Netscape are identical in both the Macintosh and Windows system palettes.