And just to let you know, that this is not a web safe colour, so you may get similar issues on different machines.
cc3333 is web safe and the equivalent decimal values are:
204,51,51
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Browse All TopicsWe have a flash animation with RGB backgroud of 204,33,33 .This movie has been embedded in html whose background is the equivalent Hex value CC3333.If we see the html in 16 bit resolution,we find a difference in the RGB and HEX colors.But There is no problem in a 24 and 32 bit resolution.Can we solve this color difference we get in a 16 bit monitor resolution.
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Well, no. There are major problems with so called web safe colors when you switch bit depths. They just DONT match up. The best solution is to completely ignore web safe colors and use whatever bloomin' colors you want. Your results will be significantly better.
As a side note those 216 web safe colors, when you take into account, Mac, PC, NS, IE, is really only about 25 reliable colors which are primarily blues and greens. Yuck.
Perhaps, but getting back to the question that the two colours look different, that is because they are not the same!
The 204,33,33 (in decimal) does not convert to cc3333. It converts cc2121, which is the main reason there is a colour difference. And it is likely that it isn't actually that noticeable until you have a lower level of resolution.
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by: a.marshPosted on 2000-10-27 at 04:20:43ID: 4939502
erm........ 204,33,33 is not the same as cc,33,33.
204,33,33 is in decimal format. Convert to hex you get:
204 = cc
33 = 21
So your hex code should read: cc2121
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