Browser Safe Color Palette

When setting up a custom interface design for e-Store, you'll set up various options in Options Configuration to indicate the colors that you want to use.

There are 216 browser safe colors that look equally good in browsers used with both the PC and Mac operating systems. If you use another color, the browser will try to create the color by combining (dithering) a number of the 216 acceptable colors. The result is that the color displayed in the browser could be slightly different than the color you had intended. Use any of the 216 colors to be sure that the color you want to use is displayed in the browser.

Use your favorite web search engine and search for "browser safe colors" to find sites that include the colors and their hex values displayed in an easy to use reference table. Or go to the web site for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at http://w3c.org and use their Search box to search for "browser safe colors."

Here is one site that includes a reference table: http://webdesign.about.com/library/bl_colors.htm. Another reference table can be found in this tutorial on the W3C site (after displaying the page, scroll to the section titled "Browser safe colors"), http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.

The following is a small section of a reference table for browser safe colors. Reference tables like this (in their complete form) allow you to visually see the color and determine the corresponding hexadecimal value.

Hexadecimal Color Values

When entering color values for the iNet options in Options Configuration, you must use the hexadecimal (hex) value that represents your color choice. Values like FF9999 represent colors as hexadecimal numbers for red, green, and blue. The first two characters give the number for red, the next two for green, and the last two for blue.

Refer to one of the reference tables to visually see the color and determine the corresponding hex value.

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