On 23/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Government of Canada has issued its second version of its Common Look and 
> Feel Guidelines, and lo and behold they're mandating a CSS-driven design for 
> all GoC websites!
>
> They have even dropped support for web-safe colours, but they are now 
> mandating that all colours on GoC websites conform to the "web-smart" 
> palette. To advertise my ignorance, I've never heard of the web-smart palette 
> before reading these guidelines, so I am wondering if others are using it. 
> It's comprised of 4,096 colours, so its only 12-bit, but I can't ever 
> remember seeing any system with a bit depth between 8 and 16.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this palette? Is it actually useful?

http://www.morecrayons.com/palettes/webSmart/
http://cloford.com/resources/colours/websmart1.htm
(and other sites)

Personally, I like it because it matches my (lazy?) preference for
setting all colours with three characters only.


-- 
T. R. Valentine
Does YOUR browser pass the Acid2 test?
http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html
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