web-safe color not safe!!! Please help!
Hi all, this is my first post and I could use some help.
I'm using a background color of #CCCC99 for a client's site. On my machine, (HP Pavilion notebook- about a year old) the color is a very subtle powder blue, nearly grey.
On my client's machine (Dell, also about a year old) the color is a bright lavendar!!! In fact, on three or four other PCs, it's lavendar as well. We're all checking it out in IE 5.0, at 16 million colors.
What could be happening here?!! I feel as though I have no control over what I'm designing. Please help!
Oh, here's the link: witchyweb.com/test/epc/newepc.html
(it's a one-pager)
what color do you see?
Thanks.
The Webmistress posted this at 18:01 — 21st August 2001.
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Welcome aboard Marple,
I'm sure you'll get lots of help here
I definately see a lavendar/lilac colour. I would say that perhaps your machine checking if you are the only one to see it the very light blue colour.
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mairving posted this at 18:18 — 21st August 2001.
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You might try changing the color to something like #99CCFF for a non-lavender blue.
Megan posted this at 18:44 — 21st August 2001.
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Try checking some other colours - is it just this colour that looks different or do they all? For example, the red used here at TWF looks dark and rich here, but on another computer I was using it looked like more of a bright red.
So, if all or many colours are looking different than they do on your machine, you probably have some sort of colour calibration problem. Now, I don't know where to go from there but hopefully someone else does????
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Marple posted this at 19:48 — 21st August 2001.
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Thanks for the quick replies everyone,
Other colors seem to be a bit more consistent- though less saturated on my machine than on others'.
I posted here in the tech forum because I'm guessing that it is a calibration problem (as was suggested), but I don't really know where to begin solving the problem.
I discovered that HP has shut down its user forum- how annoying! They were much more helpful than the companies "several service & support" options. Bah!
Anyway, thanks for taking a look and confirming the lavendar. For now I'll use a different color, but I'd love it if anyone stumbles across a potential answer...
Thanks again.
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