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If you’re using CSS layouts undoubtately you’ve noticed a funny thing happening when you define colors. Instead of the six chatacter codes that you use normally (#3cc99ff) you see just three characters (#c9f). This is called color shorthand and takes advantage of the fact that the browser-safe Web palette uses triplets that are always displayed as doublets. What this means is that the three pairs of characters from base-16 are doubled, so in order for you to write color in a shorthand fashion you remove the characters that are duplicated. For example white transforms from #ffffff into #fff, black from #000000 ends up as #000 and so on.
This characteristic is extremely useful when trying to create a color triad. All you have to do is to simply rotate the characters that make up the color codes. Let’s take for instance orange, purple and sea-green. They are written as #fc0, #c0f and #0fc. See what I mean? In order for you to discover new color triads just pick a primary color and then rotate the characters in such a way that they are in completely different positions in every one of the three bits of color code. It’s as simple as that.
The question that has risen lately regarding the importance of using a browser safe palette is completely justified. Keep in mind one thing though: the web safe color palette was created years back when most monitors only supported 256 colors. What this translates into is that if you use a color that’s not browser safe it could end up looking very ugly on the monitor it’s displayed on.
If you don’t know who is viewing your site, you won’t know they will look for the people reading them so eliminate the risks and use browser safe colors.
The only thing you need to remember is that browser safe or not, ultimately it’s your choice.
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