16 bits color?

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February 1, 2007
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A client complained about the colors in a movie. As it turns out they see boundaries of mc's and text fields (in text fields it's the rendeing area of the text, not the complete text field) in a slightly lighter tint than the background. I tried to replicate it and had to set my display to 16 bits.
Solution? Limit the color scheme to web safe?
How 'common' is 16 bits color? Isn't this something from the middle ages?

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Correct answer kglad

about 3% of users are using 8bit color (presumably handhelds like cellphones and pdas but maybe some dinosaurs) and 16% are using 16bit color.

the other 81% are using 24bit or 32bit color.

kglad

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you're welcome.

but i'm not sure about restricting your color palette helping those 16bit users unless you were using a colored text or the text was on a colored background that they could not reproduce because of their system limitations.

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Peter LorentAuthor

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Jeckyl (thanks for the detailed explanation - very helpful in the discussion with the client), kglad,
No, it doesn't help much, using a 'web-safe' palet. The problem persists and is also better/worse across different machines, using a graphics card or with integrated graphics.

>Now, changing what color is there may increase or lessen the visible difference, but it is unlike to help.
Exactly what happens.

Well, let's see how the client reacts...

Thanks guys!

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SymTsb

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Not unless you restrict your palette to 256 colors (Web Safe).

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Peter LorentAuthor

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Thought as much. Thanks for the reply.

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Peter LorentAuthor

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and thanks kglad.

kglad

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about 3% of users are using 8bit color (presumably handhelds like cellphones and pdas but maybe some dinosaurs) and 16% are using 16bit color.

the other 81% are using 24bit or 32bit color.