Colour rendering anarchy?!

[elmiocid]

Hi, I entered a hex value for a background colour of a div in an external css style sheet, to find that the rendering of that colour, a kind of tobacco'ish shade, rendered as an almost dark pink! in another pc

In both my pc and laptop the colour was the same with both IE and Firefox, but a disaster colour when I tried in a third pc...

How can I make the colour render always the same.. I thought the hex values were trustworthy...

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It might not be anything you can control. For example:

- How many colours was the other display set to? 256? 65,000? Millions?

- Did the other PC have any colour schemes / profiles set up via software?

- Were both monitors calibrated to the same standards? Perhaps one has it's colour balance completely different.

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[darryncooke]

Billy ray is right on.

Do a google search on web safe colors. those are the colors that will display correctly on 99% of browsers. straying off that path will reduce that number significantly.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Billy ray is right on.

Do a google search on web safe colors.

I specifically [!]didn't[/!] mention anything about web-safe colours, because as far as I am concerned, the days when we needed to use them are long gone.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

In fact...

Web-safe" colors had a flaw in that, on systems such as X11 where the palette is shared between applications, smaller color cubes (5×5×5 or 4×4×4) were often allocated by browsers — thus, the "web safe" colors would actually dither on such systems.

As of 2007 ... The use of "web-safe" colors has fallen into practical disuse, but persisted in culture.

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[darryncooke]

Yes I agree and I misspoke when i said web-safe colors. What I meant to say was that your color pallette is more limited if you want certain colors to appear the same on a majority of systems.

i used the term rather loosely.

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