Browsers and monitors do not display colors consistently. To ensure that your carefully-chosen colors will appear as you want them on as many systems as possible, you should always use "web safe" colors (also known as the Netscape color palette). Even then the results may not look quite the same on another monitor because of contrast, brightness, and other factors.

This palette identifies colors as combinations of red, green and blue, using hexadecimal (base 16) numbers for each color. The web safe palette limits you to the following values for red, green and blue: 00, 33, 66, 99, CC and FF.

Tables 1 to 6 give the hex code and the resulting color. Reading across the first row, the first two letters in a column give the red value and the second two give the green value. For the blue value, replace the dashes with the two letters in the leftmost column. Thus the first color is FFFFFF, the color below that is FFFFCC, the color to the right is FFCCFF.

The Color Tables

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

Table 5

Table 6

Additional Links About the Web-Safe Color Palette

• Lynda.com's Web Color Page
• VisiBone's Webmaster Color Lab
• Webreference.com - Which Color Palette?
• Webmonkey.com's - Death of the Web-safe Color Palette?
• Web Color Posters and Charts