Unfamiliar web-based colour numbering......

Factual Questions
1

Damn, I just know this is going to be embarrassing…

I know Hex and RPG numbers and letters but I’m trying to match these and I don’t recognise these at all (sample):

99aac2
5b88a8
3679a1
326c8b
487e8e

I’m sure there’s a simple answer…BTW, I’ve always used a PC – don’t think this is a Mac thing, but maybe ?

Any ideas from the floor ?
::cringe::

2

What do you mean, couldn’t match?

3

It’s not RPG; it’s RGB, as in RedGreenBlue. The first two digits are the Red, then the Green, and the last two are the amount of Blue.

Your examples are:

99aac2
5b88a8
3679a1
326c8b
487e8e

Does that answer your question?

4

Well, they aren’t part of the standard 216-color web palette. By your OP I assume you understand the RGB color code used to specify primary colors for the web (e.g., FF0000 = Red, 00FF00 = Green, and 0000FF = Blue) and how they combine to form the other colors, yes? Anyway, when I plug these into Photoshop, this is what it tells me:


**Original    Web Equiv.**
99 aa c2    99 99 cc
5b 88 a8    66 99 99
36 79 a1    33 66 99
32 6c 8b    33 66 99
48 7e 8e    33 66 99

These are basically in the blue-green range, with more blue at the top and more green at the bottom. But you’all also see that the subtle differences among them may very well be lost when rendered on a web browser.

5

Yep, I chanced across these - and several others - a while ago and found the subtlety interesting…just jotted down some numbers in the code.

I was trying to emulate the shifting hues in Fireworks but couldn’t – now I’ve twigged I was using a web safe palate. Not clever

So now I’ve busy adjusting an ever-so-slight gap in my learning curve – actually I’d just blinded myself to the wider options because of dated assumptions. I’ve always used the 216 colours in the web safe palate but now I’ve downloaded a whole raft of palates from this guy: http://www.visibone.com - the world is my lobster.

More frustration followed as it also took me a while to twig I needed to untick the ‘snap to web safe’ tab…

I guess the question now becomes one of ‘monitors’ – presumably, I just take the plunge and assume most of the world now has more sophisticated hardware and will see whatever the hell I come up with…?

This is actually quite revelatory ! Thanks for your help, guys.

The Dithering Fool