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When you design web pages in HTML, as you probably know, you can use a tremendous range of colors (over 16 million) for fonts, tables, backgrounds and so forth using COLOR attribute of various HTML tags.

One thing that many novice webmasters don't think about is whether these colors will be displayed correctly on screens of visitors who don't have latest whiz-bang graphics cards.

There are still people out there who have a graphics cards which are only capable of displaying 256 colors at once. In these cases, only colors which you can be sure will be displayed correctly are those in browser-safe color palette.

For information about browser-safe color palette see: http://www.graphicsacademy.com/what_colorsafe.php

So what happens if your web page includes a color that isn't in color-safe palette, and a person tries to view on a 256 color screen?