Color Webtm User Manual

User Manual PANTONE® ColorWeb 1.0 TM COLORWEB USER MANUAL Copyright Pantone, Inc., 1996. All rights reserved. PANTONE® Computer Video simulations used in this product may not match PANTONE®-identified solid color standards. Use current PANTONE Color Reference Manuals for accurate color. All trademarks noted herein are either the property of Pantone, Inc. or their respective companies. PANTONE® ColorWeb™, ColorWeb™, PANTONE Internet Color System™, PANTONE® ColorDrive®, PANTONE Hexachrome™ † and Hexachrome™ are trademarks of Pantone, Inc. Macintosh, Power Macintosh, System 7.xx, Macintosh Drag and Drop, Apple ColorSync and Apple Script are registered trademarks of Apple® Computer, Inc. Adobe Photoshop™ and PageMill™ are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Claris Home Page is a trademark of Claris Corporation. Netscape Navigator™ Gold is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation. HoTMetaL™ is a trademark of SoftQuad Inc. All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. † Six-color Process System Patent Pending - Pantone, Inc.. PANTONE ColorWeb Team: Mark Astmann, Al DiBernardo, Ithran Einhorn, Andrew Hatkoff, Richard Herbert, Rosemary Morretta, Stuart Naftel, Diane O’Brien, Ben Sanders, Linda Schulte, Ira Simon and Annmarie Williams. 1 COLORWEB ™ USER MANUAL WELCOME Thank you for purchasing PANTONE ® ColorWeb™. ColorWeb™ contains all of the resources nec- essary to ensure accurate, cross-platform, non-dithered and non-substituting colors when used in the creation of Web pages. ColorWeb works with any Web authoring program and makes it easy to choose colors for use within the design of Web pages. By using colors from the PANTONE Internet Color System ™ (PICS) color palette, Web authors can be sure their page designs have rich, crisp, solid colors, no matter which computer platform these pages are created on or viewed. Users of 8, 16 or 24-bit color systems, and users of either Macintosh or PC Web browsers can see these non-dithered colors. Dithered Color Non-dithered color WHAT IS THE PANTONE INTERNET COLOR SYSTEM (PICS)? The majority of net surfers have monitors that display 256 colors (8-bit systems), which limits what colors can be displayed accurately. To make matters worse, the 256 colors that can be displayed on Macintosh computers are not the same 256 colors that can be displayed on Windows computers. How does a Web author know which colors to choose when designing their pages? The PANTONE Internet Color System was designed to eliminate this problem. The PICS System is comprised of 216 colors that will not get substituted and will appear non-dithered on both Macintosh or W…