[thelist] Dangerous Colors

M. Shane DeVault shane.devault at centurytel.com
Wed Jan 24 10:05:54 CST 2001


----- Original Message -----
From: "aardvark" <roselli at earthlink.net>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Dangerous Colors
>
> yep, but ever worked with an ad agency?  two things always give
> them cramps -- lack of text control, and lack of precise color
> control... they'll look at something on every monitor in the office
> and even if it's great on 9 out of 10, they'll still ask you to fix it...
> this is from experience with over 10 agencies...
>

Try this one: Having a perfectly clean image on your 16M. color monitor,
dropping your monitor down to 256 and the image still being perfectly clear,
but your client has a version of Netspank--I mean Netscape--that is very old
(ver. 3.0), and telling you to redraw 30 hours worth of graphics to get the
"little blue dots" to go away.

> > <cynical>
> > Might it be, that most web designers tend to use web safe colors only,
> > because it's easier to choose from just 216 colors than from 16
millions?
> > </cynical>
> >
> > Think about it.
>
> um, i doubt that... ever try to create nice gradients, or get a color to
> please a client, or match a CMYK swatch with only 256 colors at
> your disposal... if anything, i've found most web developers don't
> give a rat's left kiester about web safe...
>

Perhaps we should?

Shane






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