What are web colors?
Q: What are web colors?
A: Web colors are colors used in designing webpages, and the ways for describing and listing those colours.
Q: How many different colors can be created with RGB triplets?
A: RGB triplets can make 16,777,216 different colors.
Q: Are there common English names for some of these colors?
A: Yes, many common colors can also be chosen by their common English names.
Q: What software is typically used to create color values?
A: Often a color tool or other graphics software is used to create color values.
Q: What was the base for the original Mosaic and Netscape Navigator color lists?
A: The first versions of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator used the X11 color names as the base for their color lists because they both started as X Window System applications.
Q: What does sRGB relate to when it comes to web colors?
A: Each web color has its own definition, sRGB which relates to the chromaticities of a single phosphor set, a given transfer curve, adaptive whitepoint, and viewing conditions.
Q: How do user agents show these colors accurately?
A: Better user agents use color management to create better color fidelity which is important for Web-to-print applications.
