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[plantia]

Thanks for the list......Sue

[MalibuSurfrider]

Does anyone know of a website that has accurate color conversion from PMS to HTML is a format that I could cut and paste into an excel spreadsheet?

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[3Koi Maui]

Flags of the world with PMS colors:
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/

PMS to HTML - attached.

Attached File(s)

•  PMS HTML chart.zip (25.09K)
  Number of downloads: 44

[MalibuSurfrider]

Isa, you rock!

[ideaguy]

Isa, these are RGB conversions but I had thought that only certain RGB colors should be used on the internet - just like only certain fonts should be used - because of different reasons. Any thought or comments on that?...thanks...IDEAGUY


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3Koi Maui said:

Flags of the world with PMS colors:

PMS to HTML - attached.

[Chris Miller]

ideaguy said:

Isa, these are RGB conversions but I had thought that only certain RGB colors should be used on the internet - just like only certain fonts should be used - because of different reasons. Any thought or comments on that?...thanks...IDEAGUY


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Comes down to browser compatibility, and with fonts, whether the person has the font themselves. You have "web safe" fonts and colors that it's a good idea to stick with if you want to remain compatible across the board.

[ideaguy]

Right... that's what I had thought. Does anyone have a site to offer for compatible "web safe" colors and fonts. These would be useful to some here, I am sure...thanks...IDEAGUY

Chris Miller said:

Comes down to browser compatibility, and with fonts, whether the person has the font themselves. You have "web safe" fonts and colors that it's a good idea to stick with if you want to remain compatible across the board.

[MalibuSurfrider]

If you have a font stored on your computer (PC > C Drive > Windows > Fonts) and a website uses that font, then you can see it.

Most websites are designed so that if a font isn't available, a second and third fonts if used instead.

This is a way to decide on what fonts to use for your website: http://www.codestyle...wsResults.shtml

[BOAB]

ideaguy said:

Right... that's what I had thought. Does anyone have a site to offer for compatible "web safe" colors and fonts. These would be useful to some here, I am sure...thanks...IDEAGUY

http://www.lynda.com/hex.asp#

There are two downloadable charts there. One browser safe chart separated by hue, the other one by hexidecimal value.

There are only 256 colors deemed to be "browser safe" on all monitors. And macs have 40 colors that windows systems dont. (216 of them are the same)
These "browser safe" colors were for back in the day when most people had monitors only capable of displaying 8 bit color. I would imagine most people on the net are using monitors capable of displaying many more (32 bit) colors now.

As far as fonts go, that is a browser issue. (as opposed to a monitor one) Beware of using uncommon fonts in your webpages! If the person viewing it doesn't have it in their system, it can drastically change your page layout when it automatically substitutes a font!

Chris, I'd use caution when using that HTML to PMS conversion chart. Some companies, especially big corporations are very anal about their particular PMS colors in their logo. That's the whole purpose of using PMS colors to begin with! So instead of saying "our logo is orange and green" so that every time it's printed by a different printer (or even the same printer with different batches of ink), they can say "our logo is PMS 355 and PMS 021" and then the logo will be printed exact every time. I'd venture a guess that the color chart Isa uploaded has close hexidecimal equivalents, but the overwhelming majority of them wont be exact.

David

[MalibuSurfrider]

This web-safe colors thing is really a non issue. Even from that link you provided it says this:

"The only reason to use the browser-safe palette is if you have a concern that your Web design work will be viewed from a 256 color (8-bit) computer system. When I published the browser-safe color chart in my first book, Designing Web Graphics, waaaayyy back in 1996, the MAJORITY of computer users had 8-bit video cards."

[BOAB]

While we're on the subject of HTML colors (hexidecimal).
If you ever wanted to match a font or background to a specific color in a JPEG photo, or wanted to blend it in with the background exactly...

Here are handy utilities so you can pick up any color on your screen and it will give you the RGB and HTML values: (windows users)
http://www.versiontr...ndows&submit=Go

and here's one for the mac users:
http://www.charcoald...n.co.uk/pipette

It's a very handy little tool, and best of all, it's free!
(there's also one built into Art Director's Toolkit)

David

[BOAB]

MalibuSurfrider said:

This web-safe colors thing is really a non issue. Even from that link you provided it says this:

Erm... that's exactly what I just said!

Also, I wouldn't really call it a "non-issue" because there are still many tens of millions of users with older monitors.

It's a non -issue for the vast majority of users... I'll bet most major corporate websites still use colors from the "browser safe" chart just so their pages will look uniform on all monitors, without dithering.

David

[royster13]

From my web stats less than 4% have 24 bit or less....I would rather do a nice job for 96% than worry about the 4%.....For example a suppliers sells in quantities of 1,000 and 4% of his clients wants 900, I can only image the 4% would be out of luck....You can not please every one all the time....

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[ideaguy]

That's a cool source...thanks...IDEAGUY

MalibuSurfrider said:

If you have a font stored on your computer (PC > C Drive > Windows > Fonts) and a website uses that font, then you can see it.

Most websites are designed so that if a font isn't available, a second and third fonts if used instead.

This is a way to decide on what fonts to use for your website: http://www.codestyle...wsResults.shtml

[epromo]

Anyone know of a PMS to CMYK conversion chart?

Mike

[arpromos]

You could use CorelDraw or Photoshop to get the correct CMYK.

Angela

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