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-[web colors] are ‘colors’ used in displaying ‘web pages’ on the ‘world wide web’ and the methods for describing/specifying those ‘colors’-
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A hex triplet is a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent colors.
The bytes represent the red, green, and blue components of the color.
One byte represents a number in the range 00 to FF (in hexadecimal notation), or 0 to 255 in decimal notation
This represents the least (0) to the most (255) intensity of each of the color components.
Thus web colors specify colors in the 24-bit RGB color scheme
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The hex triplet is formed by concatenating three bytes in hexadecimal notation, in the following order:
Byte 1: red value (color type red)
Byte 2: green value (color type green)
Byte 3: blue value (color type blue)
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For example, consider the color where the red/green/blue values are decimal numbers: red=36, green=104, blue=160 (a grayish-blue color)
The decimal numbers 36, 104, and 160 are equivalent to the hexadecimal numbers 24, 68, and A0 respectively.
The hex triplet is obtained by concatenating the six hexadecimal digits together, 2468A0 in this example.
If any one of the three color values is less than 10 hex (16 decimal), it must be represented with a leading zero so that the triplet always has exactly six digits. For example, the decimal triplet 4, 8, 16 would be represented by the hex digits 04, 08, 10, forming the hex triplet 040810.
The number of colors that can be represented by this system is 166 or 2563 or 224 = 16,777,216.
Shorthand hexadecimal form[edit]
An abbreviated, three (hexadecimal)-digit form is used.[5] Expanding this form to the six-digit form is as simple as doubling each digit: 09C becomes 0099CC as presented on the following CSS example:
.threedigit { color: #09C; }
.sixdigit { color: #0099CC; } /* same color as above */
This shorthand form reduces the palette to 4,096 colors, equivalent of 12-bit color as opposed to 24-bit color using the whole six-digit form (16,777,216 colors). This limitation is sufficient for many text-based documents.
Converting RGB to hexadecimal[edit]
RGB values are usually given in the 0–255 range; if they are in the 0–1 range, the values are multiplied by 255 before conversion. This number divided by sixteen (integer division; ignoring any remainder) gives the first hexadecimal digit (between 0 and F, where the letters A to F represent the numbers 10 to 15. See hexadecimal for more details). The remainder gives the second hexadecimal digit. For instance, the RGB value 201 divides into 12 groups of 16, thus the first digit is C. A remainder of nine gives the hexadecimal number C9. This process is repeated for each of the three color values.
Conversion between number bases is a common feature of calculators, including both hand-held models and the software calculators bundled with most modern operating systems. Web-based tools specifically for converting color values are also available.
HTML color names[edit]
Recent W3C specifications of color names distinguishes between basic and extended colors.[6] In HTML and XHTML, colors can be used for text, background color, frame borders, tables, and individual table cells.[7]
Basic colors[edit]
The basic colors are 16 colors defined in the HTML 4.01 specification, ratified in 1999,[8] as follows (names are defined in this context to be case-insensitive):
CSS 1–2.0, HTML 3.2–4, and VGA color names
Name Hex
(RGB) Red
(RGB) Green
(RGB) Blue
(RGB) Hue
(HSL/HSV) Satur.
(HSL) Light
(HSL) Satur.
(HSV) Value
(HSV) CGA number (name); alias
White #FFFFFF 100% 100% 100% 0° 0% 100% 0% 100% 15 (white)
Silver #C0C0C0 75% 75% 75% 0° 0% 75% 0% 75% 07 (light gray)
Gray #808080 50% 50% 50% 0° 0% 50% 0% 50% 08 (dark gray)
Black #000000 0% 0% 0% 0° 0% 0% 0% 0% 00 (black)
Red #FF0000 100% 0% 0% 0° 100% 50% 100% 100% 12 (high red)
Maroon #800000 50% 0% 0% 0° 100% 25% 100% 50% 04 (low red)
Yellow #FFFF00 100% 100% 0% 60° 100% 50% 100% 100% 14 (yellow)
Olive #808000 50% 50% 0% 60° 100% 25% 100% 50% 06 (brown)
Lime #00FF00 0% 100% 0% 120° 100% 50% 100% 100% 10 (high green); green
Green #008000 0% 50% 0% 120° 100% 25% 100% 50% 02 (low green)
Aqua #00FFFF 0% 100% 100% 180° 100% 50% 100% 100% 11 (high cyan); cyan
Teal #008080 0% 50% 50% 180° 100% 25% 100% 50% 03 (low cyan)
Blue #0000FF 0% 0% 100% 240° 100% 50% 100% 100% 09 (high blue)
Navy #000080 0% 0% 50% 240° 100% 25% 100% 50% 01 (low blue)
Fuchsia #FF00FF 100% 0% 100% 300° 100% 50% 100% 100% 13 (high magenta); magenta
Purple #800080 50% 0% 50% 300° 100% 25% 100% 50% 05 (low magenta)
These 16 were labelled as sRGB and included in the HTML 3.0 specification, which noted they were “the standard 16 colors supported with the Windows VGA palette.”[9]
Extended colors[edit]
SVG Version of X11 color names
SVG1.1 named colors with sRGB hex/dec and HSL codes, at UHD (4K) resolution
The extended colors is the result of merging specifications from HTML 4.01, CSS 2.0, SVG 1.0 and CSS3 User Interfaces (CSS3 UI).[6]
Several colors are defined by web browsers. A particular browser may not recognize all of these colors, but as of 2005, all modern, general-use, graphical browsers support the full list of colors. Many of these colors are from the list of X11 color names distributed with the X Window System. These colors were standardized by SVG 1.0, and are accepted by SVG Full user agents. They are not part of SVG Tiny.
The list of colors shipped with the X11 product varies between implementations and clashes with certain of the HTML names such as green. X11 colors are defined as simple RGB (hence, no particular color space), rather than sRGB. This means that the list of colors found in X11 (e.g., in /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt) should not directly be used to choose colors for the web.[10]
The list of web “X11 colors” from the CSS3 specification, along with their hexadecimal and decimal equivalents, is shown below. Compare the alphabetical lists in the W3C standards. This includes the common synonyms: aqua (HTML4/CSS 1.0 standard name) and cyan (common sRGB name), magenta (common sRGB name) and fuchsia (HTML4/CSS 1.0 standard name), gray (HTML4/CSS 1.0 standard name) and grey.[11][12]
HTML name R G B
Hex Decimal
Pink colors
MediumVioletRed C7 15 85 199 21 133
DeepPink FF 14 93 255 20 147
PaleVioletRed DB 70 93 219 112 147
HotPink FF 69 B4 255 105 180
LightPink FF B6 C1 255 182 193
Pink FF C0 CB 255 192 203
Red colors
DarkRed 8B 00 00 139 0 0
Red FF 00 00 255 0 0
Firebrick B2 22 22 178 34 34
Crimson DC 14 3C 220 20 60
IndianRed CD 5C 5C 205 92 92
LightCoral F0 80 80 240 128 128
Salmon FA 80 72 250 128 114
DarkSalmon E9 96 7A 233 150 122
LightSalmon FF A0 7A 255 160 122
Orange colors
OrangeRed FF 45 00 255 69 0
Tomato FF 63 47 255 99 71
DarkOrange FF 8C 00 255 140 0
Coral FF 7F 50 255 127 80
Orange FF A5 00 255 165 0
Yellow colors
DarkKhaki BD B7 6B 189 183 107
Gold FF D7 00 255 215 0
Khaki F0 E6 8C 240 230 140
PeachPuff FF DA B9 255 218 185
Yellow FF FF 00 255 255 0
PaleGoldenrod EE E8 AA 238 232 170
Moccasin FF E4 B5 255 228 181
PapayaWhip FF EF D5 255 239 213
LightGoldenrodYellow FA FA D2 250 250 210
LemonChiffon FF FA CD 255 250 205
LightYellow FF FF E0 255 255 224
Brown colors
Maroon 80 00 00 128 0 0
Brown A5 2A 2A 165 42 42
SaddleBrown 8B 45 13 139 69 19
Sienna A0 52 2D 160 82 45
Chocolate D2 69 1E 210 105 30
DarkGoldenrod B8 86 0B 184 134 11
Peru CD 85 3F 205 133 63
RosyBrown BC 8F 8F 188 143 143
Goldenrod DA A5 20 218 165 32
SandyBrown F4 A4 60 244 164 96
Tan D2 B4 8C 210 180 140
Burlywood DE B8 87 222 184 135
Wheat F5 DE B3 245 222 179
NavajoWhite FF DE AD 255 222 173
Bisque FF E4 C4 255 228 196
BlanchedAlmond FF EB CD 255 235 205
Cornsilk FF F8 DC 255 248 220
HTML name R G B
Hex Decimal
Green colors
DarkGreen 00 64 00 0 100 0
Green 00 80 00 0 128 0
DarkOliveGreen 55 6B 2F 85 107 47
ForestGreen 22 8B 22 34 139 34
SeaGreen 2E 8B 57 46 139 87
Olive 80 80 00 128 128 0
OliveDrab 6B 8E 23 107 142 35
MediumSeaGreen 3C B3 71 60 179 113
LimeGreen 32 CD 32 50 205 50
Lime 00 FF 00 0 255 0
SpringGreen 00 FF 7F 0 255 127
MediumSpringGreen 00 FA 9A 0 250 154
DarkSeaGreen 8F BC 8F 143 188 143
MediumAquamarine 66 CD AA 102 205 170
YellowGreen 9A CD 32 154 205 50
LawnGreen 7C FC 00 124 252 0
Chartreuse 7F FF 00 127 255 0
LightGreen 90 EE 90 144 238 144
GreenYellow AD FF 2F 173 255 47
PaleGreen 98 FB 98 152 251 152
Cyan colors
Teal 00 80 80 0 128 128
DarkCyan 00 8B 8B 0 139 139
LightSeaGreen 20 B2 AA 32 178 170
CadetBlue 5F 9E A0 95 158 160
DarkTurquoise 00 CE D1 0 206 209
MediumTurquoise 48 D1 CC 72 209 204
Turquoise 40 E0 D0 64 224 208
Aqua 00 FF FF 0 255 255
Cyan 00 FF FF 0 255 255
Aquamarine 7F FF D4 127 255 212
PaleTurquoise AF EE EE 175 238 238
LightCyan E0 FF FF 224 255 255
Blue colors
Navy 00 00 80 0 0 128
DarkBlue 00 00 8B 0 0 139
MediumBlue 00 00 CD 0 0 205
Blue 00 00 FF 0 0 255
MidnightBlue 19 19 70 25 25 112
RoyalBlue 41 69 E1 65 105 225
SteelBlue 46 82 B4 70 130 180
DodgerBlue 1E 90 FF 30 144 255
DeepSkyBlue 00 BF FF 0 191 255
CornflowerBlue 64 95 ED 100 149 237
SkyBlue 87 CE EB 135 206 235
LightSkyBlue 87 CE FA 135 206 250
LightSteelBlue B0 C4 DE 176 196 222
LightBlue AD D8 E6 173 216 230
PowderBlue B0 E0 E6 176 224 230
HTML name R G B
Hex Decimal
Purple, violet, and magenta colors
Indigo 4B 00 82 75 0 130
Purple 80 00 80 128 0 128
DarkMagenta 8B 00 8B 139 0 139
DarkViolet 94 00 D3 148 0 211
DarkSlateBlue 48 3D 8B 72 61 139
BlueViolet 8A 2B E2 138 43 226
DarkOrchid 99 32 CC 153 50 204
Fuchsia FF 00 FF 255 0 255
Magenta FF 00 FF 255 0 255
SlateBlue 6A 5A CD 106 90 205
MediumSlateBlue 7B 68 EE 123 104 238
MediumOrchid BA 55 D3 186 85 211
MediumPurple 93 70 DB 147 112 219
Orchid DA 70 D6 218 112 214
Violet EE 82 EE 238 130 238
Plum DD A0 DD 221 160 221
Thistle D8 BF D8 216 191 216
Lavender E6 E6 FA 230 230 250
White colors
MistyRose FF E4 E1 255 228 225
AntiqueWhite FA EB D7 250 235 215
Linen FA F0 E6 250 240 230
Beige F5 F5 DC 245 245 220
WhiteSmoke F5 F5 F5 245 245 245
LavenderBlush FF F0 F5 255 240 245
OldLace FD F5 E6 253 245 230
AliceBlue F0 F8 FF 240 248 255
Seashell FF F5 EE 255 245 238
GhostWhite F8 F8 FF 248 248 255
Honeydew F0 FF F0 240 255 240
FloralWhite FF FA F0 255 250 240
Azure F0 FF FF 240 255 255
MintCream F5 FF FA 245 255 250
Snow FF FA FA 255 250 250
Ivory FF FF F0 255 255 240
White FF FF FF 255 255 255
Gray and black colors
Black 00 00 00 0 0 0
DarkSlateGray 2F 4F 4F 47 79 79
DimGray 69 69 69 105 105 105
SlateGray 70 80 90 112 128 144
Gray 80 80 80 128 128 128
LightSlateGray 77 88 99 119 136 153
DarkGray A9 A9 A9 169 169 169
Silver C0 C0 C0 192 192 192
LightGray D3 D3 D3 211 211 211
Gainsboro DC DC DC 220 220 220
CSS colors[edit]
The Cascading Style Sheets specification defines the same number of named colors as the HTML 4 spec, namely the 16 html colors, and 124 colors from the Netscape X11 color list for a total of 140 names that were recognized by Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 3.0.[13] Blooberry.com notes that Opera 2.1 and Safari 1 also included Netscape’s expanded list of 140 color names, but later discovered 14 names not included with Opera 3.5 on Windows 98.[14]
In CSS 2.1, the color ‘orange’ (one of the 140) was added to the section with the 16 HTML4 colors as a 17th color.[15] The CSS3.0 specification did not include orange in the “HTML4 color keywords” section, which was renamed as “Basic color keywords”.[16] In the same reference, the “SVG color keywords” section, was renamed “Extended color keywords”, after starting out as “X11 color keywords” in an earlier working draft
The working draft for the level 4 color module combines the Basic and Extended sections together in a simple “Named Colors” section
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CSS 2, SVG and CSS 2.1 allow web authors to use system colors, which are color names whose values are taken from the operating system, picking the operating system’s highlighted text color, or the background color for tooltip controls
This enables web authors to style their content in line with the operating system of the user agent.[19] The CSS3 color module has deprecated the use of system colors in favor of CSS3 UI System Appearance property,[20][21] which itself was subsequently dropped from CSS3.[22]
The CSS3 specification also introduces HSL color space values to style sheets:[23]
/* RGB model / p { color: #F00 } / #rgb / p { color: #FF0000 } / #rrggbb / p { color: rgb(255, 0, 0) } / integer range 0 – 255 / p { color: rgb(100%, 0%, 0%) } / float range 0.0% – 100.0% */
/* RGB with alpha channel, added to CSS3 / p { color: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5) } / 0.5 opacity, semi-transparent */
/* HSL model, added to CSS3 / p { color: hsl(0, 100%, 50%) } / red / p { color: hsl(120, 100%, 50%) } / green / p { color: hsl(120, 100%, 25%) } / dark green / p { color: hsl(120, 100%, 75%) } / light green / p { color: hsl(120, 50%, 50%) } / pastel green */
/* HSL model with alpha channel / p { color: hsla(120, 100%, 50%, 1) } / green / p { color: hsla(120, 100%, 50%, 0.5) } / semi-transparent green / p { color: hsla(120, 100%, 50%, 0.1) } / very transparent green */
CSS Color 4[edit]
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This section is missing information about non-sRGB-based colorspaces in CSS Color Module Level 4 draft. Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (January 2021)
On 21 June 2014, the CSS WG added the color RebeccaPurple to the Editor’s Draft of the Colors module level 4, to commemorate Eric Meyer’s daughter Rebecca who died on 7 June 2014, her sixth birthday.[24]
Color added in CSS4 Colors module
Name Hex
(RGB) Red
(RGB) Green
(RGB) Blue
(RGB) Hue
(HSL/HSV) Satur.
(HSL) Light
(HSL) Satur.
(HSV) Value
(HSV) Alias
RebeccaPurple #663399 40% 20% 60% 270° 50% 40% 67% 60%
CSS also supports the special color transparent, which represents an alpha value of zero; by default, transparent is rendered as an invisible nominal black: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0).[18]
CSS Color 5[edit]
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Web-safe colors[edit]
In the mid-1990s, many displays were only capable of displaying 256 colors.[25] These may be dictated by the hardware or changeable by a “color table”. When a color is found (e.g., in an image) that is not available, a different one had to be used.
This can be done by either using the closest color or by using dithering.
There were various attempts to make a “standard” color palette.
A set of colors was needed that could be shown without dithering on 256-color displays; the number 216 was chosen partly because computer operating systems customarily reserved sixteen to twenty colors for their own use; it was also selected because it allows exactly six equally spaced shades of red, green, and blue (6 × 6 × 6 = 216), each from 00 to FF (including both limits).
The list of colors is presented as if it had special properties that render them immune to dithering, but on 256-color displays applications can actually set a palette of any selection of colors that they choose, dithering the rest.
These colors were chosen specifically because they matched the palettes selected by various browser applications.
There were not very different palettes in use in different browsers
“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 allocated by browsers—the “web-safe” colors would dither on such systems.
Different results were obtained by providing an image with a larger range of colors and allowing the browser to quantize the color space if needed, rather than suffer the quality loss of a double quantization.
Through the 2000s, use of 256-color displays in personal computers dropped sharply in favour of 24-bit (TrueColor) displays,[26] and the use of “web-safe” colors has fallen into practical disuse.
The “web-safe” colors do not all have standard names, but each can be specified by an RGB triplet: each component (red, green, and blue) takes one of the six values from the following table (out of the 256 possible values available for each component in full 24-bit color).
6 shades of each color
Key Hex Decimal Fraction
0 00 0 0
3 33 51 0.2
6 66 102 0.4
9 99 153 0.6
C (12) CC 204 0.8
F (15) FF 255 1
The following table shows all of the “web-safe” colors. One shortcoming of the web-safe palette is its small range of light colors for webpage backgrounds, whereas the intensities at the low end of the range, such as the two darkest, are similar to each other, making them hard to distinguish. Values flanked by “*” (asterisk) are part of the “really safe palette;” see Safest web colors, below.
Color table[edit]
216 web-safe colors
000 300 600 900 C00 F00
003 303 603 903 C03 F03
006 306 606 906 C06 F06
009 309 609 909 C09 F09
00C 30C 60C 90C C0C F0C
00F 30F 60F 90F C0F F0F
030 330 630 930 C30 F30
033 333 633 933 C33 F33
036 336 636 936 C36 F36
039 339 639 939 C39 F39
03C 33C 63C 93C C3C F3C
03F 33F 63F 93F C3F F3F
060 360 660 960 C60 F60
063 363 663 963 C63 F63
066 366 666 966 C66 F66
069 369 669 969 C69 F69
06C 36C 66C 96C C6C F6C
06F 36F 66F 96F C6F F6F
090 390 690 990 C90 F90
093 393 693 993 C93 F93
096 396 696 996 C96 F96
099 399 699 999 C99 F99
09C 39C 69C 99C C9C F9C
09F 39F 69F 99F C9F F9F
0C0 3C0 6C0 9C0 CC0 FC0
0C3 3C3 6C3 9C3 CC3 FC3
0C6 3C6 6C6 9C6 CC6 FC6
0C9 3C9 6C9 9C9 CC9 FC9
0CC 3CC 6CC 9CC CCC FCC
0CF 3CF 6CF 9CF CCF FCF
0F0 3F0 6F0 9F0 CF0 FF0
0F3 3F3 6F3 9F3 CF3 FF3
0F6 3F6 6F6 9F6 CF6 FF6
0F9 3F9 6F9 9F9 CF9 FF9
0FC 3FC 6FC 9FC CFC FFC
0FF 3FF 6FF 9FF CFF FFF
Each color code listed is a shorthand for the RGB value. For example, code 609 is equivalent to RGB code 102-0-153 or HEX code #660099
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Safest web colors
Designers were encouraged to stick to these 216 “web-safe” colors in their websites because there were a lot of 8-bit color displays when the 216-color palette was developed
David Lehn and Hadley Stern discovered that only 22 of the 216 colors in the web-safe palette are reliably displayed without inconsistent remapping on 16-bit computer displays
They called these 22 colors “the really safe palette”; it consists largely of shades of green, yellow, and blue.[27][28]
Safest web colors
0 3 6 9 C F
00 000 F00
03 003 F03
06
0C
0F 00F F0F
F0 0F0 6F0 FF0
F3 3F3 6F3 FF3
F6 0F6 3F6 CF6 FF6
FC 0FC 3FC
FF 0FF 3FF 6FF FFF
Accessibility[edit]
Color selection[edit]
Some browsers and devices do not support colors. For these displays or blind and colorblind users, Web content depending on colors can be unusable or difficult to use.
Either no colors should be specified (to invoke the browser’s default colors), or both the background and all foreground colors (such as the colors of plain text, unvisited links, hovered links, active links, and visited links) should be specified to avoid black on black or white on white effects.[29]
Color contrast[edit]
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommend a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 between the relative luminance of text and its background color[30] or at least 3:1 for large text. Enhanced accessibility requires contrast ratios greater than 7:1.
However, addressing accessibility concerns is not simply a matter of increasing the contrast ratio. As a report to the Web Accessibility Initiative indicates,[31] dyslexic readers are better served by contrast ratios below the maximum. The recommendations they refer to of off-black (0x0A0A0A) on off-white (0xFFFFE5) and black (0x000000) on creme (0xFAFAC8) have contrast ratios of 11.7:1 and 20.3:1 respectively. Among their other color pairs, brown (0x282800) on dark green (0xA0A000) has a contrast ratio of 3.24:1, which is less than the WCAG recommendation, dark brown (0x1E1E00) on light green (0xB9B900) has a contrast ratio of 4.54:1 and blue (0x00007D) on yellow (0xFFFF00) has a contrast ratio of 11.4:1.
Notice that the colors named in the report use different color values than the web colors of the same name
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See also
Adobe RGB color space
CIE 1931 XYZ color space
CIE Lab* color space
Color tool
List of color palettes
List of colors
List of colors by shade
ProPhoto RGB
RGB color space
scRGB
Wide-gamut RGB color space
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External links[edit]
CSS color value on MDN Web Docs
CSS2.1 Color Specification
Listing of Web Safe Colors
Web colors at Curlie
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Web_colors
Web colors
Contributors to Wikimedia projects25-31 minutes 8/2/2003
Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to their common English names in some cases.
A color tool or other graphics software is often used to generate color values.
In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#)
A color is specified according to the intensity of its red, green and blue components, each represented by eight bits.
Thus, there are 24 bits used to specify a web color within the sRGB gamut, and 16,777,216 colors that may be so specified.
Colors outside the sRGB gamut can be specified in Cascading Style Sheets by making one or more of the red, green and blue components negative or greater than 100%, so the color space is theoretically an unbounded extrapolation of sRGB similar to scRGB
Specifying a non-sRGB color this way requires the RGB() function call. It is impossible with the hexadecimal syntax (and thus impossible in legacy HTML documents that do not use CSS).
The first versions of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator used the X11 color names as the basis for their color lists, as both started as X Window System applications. Web colors have an unambiguous colorimetric definition, sRGB, which relates the chromaticities of a particular phosphor set, a given transfer curve, adaptive whitepoint, and viewing conditions.[4] These have been chosen to be similar to many real-world monitors and viewing conditions, to allow rendering to be fairly close to the specified values even without color management.
User agents vary in the fidelity with which they represent the specified colors.
More advanced user agents use color management to provide better color fidelity
this is particularly important for Web-to-print applications.
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥