Re: Web safe colors

In article <yLKdnVVFsqbN25rYnZ2dnUVZ_qGdnZ2d (AT) yvn (DOT) com>,
"Runnin' on Empty" <westfork59840 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

She also said:

The browser-safe palette was developed by programmers with no design sense,
I assure you. That's because a designer would have never picked these
colors. Mostly, the palette contains far less light and dark colors than I
wish it did, and is heavy on highly saturated colors and low on muted,
tinted or toned colors.

Was there not a useful factor in the ease of categorizing the
websafe colors in respect to #AABBCC? Would or could this non
existent but possible "designer" have chosen and kept to the
simplicity of the idea of duplication in the three pairs. Imagine
a group of "designers" agreeing on a spread of 256 colours if the
only criteria was "a nice range" of colours!

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dorayme