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system
palette
Rule
of Thumb : For best color reproduction on the web, set monitor for
"Thousands of Colors" on the Mac and "High Color"
in Windows.
Note:
UNIX versions of Navigator use a different color palette that the
Windows and Macintosh versions.
from
Windows for Mac Users:
The Macintosh-to-Windows Guide
by Cynthia L. Baron & Robin Williams, Peachpit Press, Berkeley,
California ©1999
ISBN 0-201-35396-2
The Windows
system palette
"Windows really doesn't have a system palette; it only
has a starter selection of colors. Any application for Windows can
throw out the Windows "system" palette and create its
own group of colors, except for the first ten and the last ten colors
in the palette (circled, below).The colors in these palette postions
must always appear in these exact locations and can never
be replaced. If you create an image using all 256 colors but don't
include these twenty exact shades, Windows
will throw out twenty of the custom colors from your image and replace
them with these standard twenty " p. 354
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Windows
Circled [in red] are the twenty permanent Windows palette
colors in the positions in which they will always appear.
Macintosh
The top 216 colors are used by Netscape and Adobe in the Windows
versions of their software.Four sets of color blends [in red]. |
The Mac system
palette
"To make a useful palette with enough colors to dither nicely
when necessary, Apple devised a logical sequence that uses colors
from the widest possible range of hue and brightness."
"The first
part of the palette has an assortment of 216 different colors. The
bottom portion of the palette has four sets of colors in even steps
from light to dark-red, green, blue, and gray." p.355
Netscape
and Adobe adaptations of the Mac palette
" ...Netscape used the 216 Macintosh
colors to create the palette for its Windows browser, with 13 other
special colors for its own logo..."
p.355
"Adobe
also uses the basic 216 colors of the Macintosh palette as the default
in its Windows applications, which makes transferring
graphic files from the Macintosh to Windows consistent and simple."
p.355
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