Re: matching colors

by Byron Canfield <barn(at)byronc.com>

 Date:  Thu, 26 Mar 1998 18:54:28 -0800
 To:  "ci.lawrence.ks.us" <lpl(at)carlsbad.idir.net>,
hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To:  idir
  todo: View Thread, Original
The colors you've used may both be "blue-green," but they are definitely
not the same color. The blue-green you use in your GIF files has RGB values
of 128/186/177, whereas the background color of your table cell is
128/177/177 (neither of which, incidentally, are part of the browser-safe
216-color Netscape palette).

That slight difference in the Green value is the reason that the colors
look slightly off, under some circumstances, and in others, a gray is
introduced because of the non-Netscape palette.

>I've created a table with two cells (left and right).
>The left cell contains graphics created in Photoshop 3
>and, underneath those graphics, a bgcolor (#        ).
>Both the bgcolor and the graphics' color of blue-green.
>
>Since the page runs longer than the graphics, the
>underlying table color shows. Here's the problem:
>
>On most monitors, the match between the color of the 
>graphics and the underlying table bgcolor is good. 
>But on some montors the table background color looks 
>grey, which is definitely not a match.

Barn
(Byron Canfield)
http://www.byronc.com
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