Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

In honor of my new version of MoveableType, I though new templates
might be in order. In fact, I thought I might even be wild and crazy
and use web-unsafe colors. I’m a rebel.

Familiar I am, in the web-Jedi way, with the 216 web-safe colors,
meant to guarantee consistency across different monitors, operating
systems, and color depths. I know where to find the websafe colors
listed by value, href="http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html">hue, or whatever. I
am intimately familiar with Visibone’s lovely href="http://html-color-codes.com/">color arrangements; I’ve done
my time in their color
lab.

Rumor has it, there are only href="http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/stuff2a/complete_websafe_216/reallysafe_palette.html">22
truly safe colors. Although three of those colors are my
favorite sunshine-yellow spectrum, I cannot advocate such
extraordinary abstinence in web design.

Yet there comes a time in a webmistress’s life when #ffff00 just
doesn’t cut it anymore. Where does she go for illicit colors, for
the #a4b217 her mother warned her against? After asking a
few unsavory characters, I came across a page devoted to using href="http://www.mlwebb.com/color_palette.htm">an unsafe
palette. Behold the href="http://www.childoflight.org/mcc/colorcodeAA.html">yellow!
Mix and match your
poisons. Read a href="http://www.morecrayons.com/weblog/">color blog.

Watch this space for a whiter shade of pale…

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