The Science Behind Web Colors

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Term Paper Title	The Science Behind Web Colors
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The Science Behind Web Colors

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Technology

[Paper Title]:

The Science Behind Web Colors

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The technological advancements of the late twentieth century has introduced
artists to a new type of medium, the web. Beneath the Web’s complex jumble of
hyperlinks, documents, and multimedia offerings lies a programming language that
keeps all the content in its place. Without this ubiquitous, yet often unseen
HTML code to hold the Web together, the medium itself could not exist, and
cyberspace would be a vastly different experience for most users . The growth of
the Internet has spawned a generation of high-tech artists. Rather than creating
artwork with conventional mediums such as paints and brushes, these new age
artists are using pixels and trackballs to create their masterpieces.

Unfortunately, a major dilemma that web artists have to account for is color.
According to graphic designer Roger Pring, many web designers overlook the
importance of color when designing a web site . Color reproduction on the Web is
not nearly at the quality level needed to exhibit the artworks that are produced
in millions of colors. Accordingly, designers are left with a color palette of
only 216 web safe colors. The discussion of web color theory remains unfamiliar
to many designers, as well as myself. I will investigate the unknown
restrictions on designing for the web and explain why there are only 216 safe
colors.

In order to understand the model of 216 web safe colors, we must explore the
use of color across different computer platforms. As the world of high tech
consumers remain split between Mac and PC computing platforms, the growth of the
Internet has caused a resurgence of computer use. In 1995, there were an
estimated 56 million Internet users worldwide; by 2005, this figure is expected
to rise to over 200 million . A wealth of information is readily available to
those who possess the technological means to access and to contribute to it.
This includes Mac, PC, and Linux users. The unfortunate consequence of offering
various operating systems is an absence of a standard. Different operating
systems have a tendency to process color differently. Gamma is the measure of
contrast displayed by a monitor, and traditionally, it has been set at 1.8 for
Apple Macintosh systems and 2.2 for PC’s. Where gamma relates to color space,
the higher (pc) value has the property of showing more shadow detail in any
given image . It is therefore important that images...

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