Whee! My First Deviation!

[elfs]

Seattle Skyline

As I mentioned earlier, brown is a really freakin' hard color to work with in web design. It's a passive color, one we recognize mostly by the light it doesn't reflect, and therefore not very easy to replicate even on the best monitors. Still, I decided to try and make it work, using my huge panorama shot of Seattle as my reference. It came out pretty good, I think, and I'm happy with the results.

Comments

[darrelx.livejournal.com]

I try to stick with the 216 "web-safe" colors when doing web graphics of any kind, unless gradients are required. The ones with R, G, and B values divisible by 51dec (33hex).

Of those, 102, 51, 0 (663300h) is the closest to "Brown" you are going to get.

[tamino.livejournal.com]

Does anyone *actually* use 8 bit displays anymore?

I'm not one to talk -- I still have a sparc 20 with a cg6 at home. But I think I may be the only one on the planet that's left by this point. :-)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That was my thought. I use photographic wood and grunge (http://www.texturelovers.com/) (concrete and leather, mostly) textures and backgrounds all the time. You can't do a decent website in 8-bit anymore. (Well, okay, you can, but it's not my genre.)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm loathe to follow up a second time, but something else also occurred to me: brown is vibrant in textures. Wood and leather textures, as well as applied gradients --and even better, a leather texture with an applied gradient mask-- give the impression of brown better than just plain color codes itself.

[duskwuff.livejournal.com]

Yeah, web-safe colors are dead. Completely unnecessary in this day and age -- most mainstream web sites will look like absolute garbage in 8-bit color, so there's really no reason to constrain yourself.

[darrelx.livejournal.com]

In my work I do a lot of remote computing with Windows RDP or Citrix Metaframe, and to speed screen updates, I frequently drop the color depth to 8-bit.

Many portable devices (PDA's and Smartphones for example) still show only 8-bit color.

[amythis.livejournal.com]

It's lovely, but I can't help thinking This should be used to show a smoggy day in L.A.