The default swatch collection that comes with Adobe ImageReady has only 156 of the 216 web-safe colors. I discovered this when a graphics designer acquaintance of mine politely suggested there wasn't much need for my online color lab because most software has the web-safe palette built in, pointing to ImageReady as an example. All of the most vivid or fully saturated colors are included in the factory-issue color picker, but many subtler shades are missing. Lynda Weinman has written several books on web colors and her swatch collection is ubiquitous, appearing even in Adobe Magazine . But it's in numerical order, which isn't much use to anyone but computer nerds.
Browns are subtle.
Tasteful designers could use a hand here. I wanted a color picking tool that worked within Adobe software that had all the web-safe colors arranged symmetrically by hue, in line with the way humans perceive color. I hope you'll be able to make use of it when picking out your next great web site color scheme. VisiBone.aco color swatches for Adobe software on PC's . Download one of these files and store it on your computer.