Web safe color chart – 216 Non dithering colors

Colors are defined using a hexadecimal notation for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB). The lowest value that can be given to one light source is 0 (hex #00). The highest value is 255 (hex #FF).

W3C Standard Color Names

W3C has listed 16 color names that will validate with an HTML validator.

The color names are:

aqua
black
blue
fuchsia
gray
green
lime
maroon
navy
olive
purple
red
silver
teal
white
yellow

Web Safe Colors

A few years ago, when most computers supported only 256 different colors, a list of 216 Web Safe Colors was suggested as a Web standard. The reason for this was that the Microsoft and Mac operating system used 40 different “reserved” fixed system colors (about 20 each).

We are not sure how important this is now, since more and more computers are equipped with the ability to display millions of different colors, but the choice is left to you.

216 Cross Platform Colors

This 216 cross platform web safe color palette was originally created to ensure that all computers would display all colors correctly when running a 256 color palette.