Oh, it's even worse that that Mike. Colors displayed as web graphics (solid
colors, ususally GIFs) are limited to about 256 colors. A web browser will
select the closest "legal" color to display. I didn't really think anyone
would consider these colors to be anything acurrate, but a relative display
of the colors used.
Gerard
At 9:33 AM +1100 10/31/01, Mike & Kerry Gigante wrote:
>> Keep in mind those are not real paint swatches. The colors depicted on
>> that page are somebody's best guestimate in HTML code using HEX numbers,
>> and probably don't accurately match the real colors.
>>
>> Adrian
>> http://www.midgetweb.com
>
>It is worse than that, the site creator probably did a good and careful
>job of trying to
>match a paint chip to what they saw on their monitor *but* what you see on
>your
>monitor can be *very* different. Not only is it related to the
>knobs/buttons you use
>to tweak your monitor, but to the exact phosphorus the manufacturer chose
>to use.
>To minimise the differences, you both need "reference" monitors and these are
>*very very* expensive.
>
>Also bear in mind that the range of colours displayable on a monitor is a
>subset of the
>colours you can see. (this is a direct result of the decision to use a 3
>colour system)
>
>So, the bottom line is that you can't rely in screen colours to be
>anything other than a vague,
>inaccurate representation of he true colour.
>
>Mike
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