Comments on: RGB Color Chart – Browser Safe Explanation http://www.chovy.com/web-development/rgb-color-chart-browser-safe-explanation/ Web Development by Chovy Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:01:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: enki http://www.chovy.com/web-development/rgb-color-chart-browser-safe-explanation/comment-page-1/#comment-16833 enki Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:17:35 +0000 http://www.chovy.com/web-development/rgb-color-chart-browser-safe-explanation/#comment-16833 It's just a nice way to divide 255 shades evenly, such that the total number of colours (6x6x6=216) is less than 256 (minus a few for the system colours that were already in use). 255 / 5 = 51 0x00 = 0 0x33 = 51 0x66 = 102 0x99 = 153 0xCC = 204 0xFF = 255 If you're interested, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors It’s just a nice way to divide 255 shades evenly, such that the total number of colours (6×6x6=216) is less than 256 (minus a few for the system colours that were already in use).

255 / 5 = 51

0×00 = 0
0×33 = 51
0×66 = 102
0×99 = 153
0xCC = 204
0xFF = 255

If you’re interested, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

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