This is a set of 216 colors
that only an engineer would have come up with, comprising mostly bright
and saturated colors, with limited choices in dark and pale colors. These
colors, you may (not) be interested to know, comprise twin hex pairs like this,
#3399CC or #FF99CC, and only use the values 0, 3, 6, 9, C, and F. So any color
you can come up with that meets these criteria is Web-safe. These colors
are a large subset of the 256 colors (40 are reserved for the system) that a
monitor driven by an 8-bit VGA card can display (remember 8-bit?), so for
years, we were told not to use any others. As of July 2007, fewer than .01 percent
(source: http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2007/July/colors.php) of the
world??™s surfers still use 8-bit color, so you can con?¬? dently use any color in
your designs that you can create with the methods listed in this chapter.
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CHAP T E R 3
Stylin??™ Fonts and Text
67 STYLIN??™ WITH CSS
MUCH OF WEB DESIGN is dealing with text??”in paragraphs,
headlines, lists, menus, and forms. As a result, the CSS
properties shown in this chapter are essential to making the
difference between a site that looks thrown together and one
that looks like it has the professional touch. More than any
other factor, type makes the clearest visual statement about
the quality of your site??™s offerings.
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