Is the Web-Safe Color Palate Dead?

Absolutely not!

Using web safe colors in GIF images ensures that:

• Your colors will look consistent cross browser, monitor and platform
• You can utilize the attribute with clean, not pixilated results

The GIF is the most widely used file type on the web because of these qualities:

• supports transparency ( ? )
• supports interlacing ( ? )
• uses the highest compression
• has the potential for downloading most quickly
• the only file type that supports raster-based online animation

If you don't use a web-safe color in your GIF, here's what happens:

	BEFORE conversion	AFTER conversion
Web Safe
Not Web Safe

Useful Links:

• ReaSoft: Common Graphic File Formats
• Amalad's Web Advice: Why Use Web Safe Colours?
• Death of the Web Safe Color Palatte? Article by Lehn and Hadley from WebMonkey.