Browser-Safe Colour Table

This table gives the hexidecimal codes of colours considered "browser safe". Although you can specify other colours in your web pages, they may not come out the way you want them. In particular colours may dither, rather than revert to the nearest web safe colour, which can give a rather unpleasant "grainy" effect.

Remember - some browsers refuse to let you set the text colour (although most mainstream ones do nowadays). So, for best practice, keep your background colour BGCOLOR="#nnnnnn" light, in case the browser defaults the text colour to black. Also keep in mind that you should set the link LINK="#nnnnnn" and visited link VLINK="#nnnnnn" attributes, if you alter the background colour far away from a neutral light colour, because otherwise links and visited links may disappear. They aren't always the same colours on the same browsers. One more thing - always keep the tonal contrast high. Some people will be viewing your site who are visually impaired, or perhaps they'll be using a mono monitor.

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