Illustration-Based Artwork

With illustration-based artwork, if you create logos, cartoons, or drawings in colors outside of the 216--you guessed it: the browser converts it anyway! Instead of shifting the color, which is what happens with hexadecimal-based color, it dithers the artwork

On a machine that supports millions of colors, both these images look fine.

Look what happens to the top image when the end-viewer's machine only supports 256 colors? The dots in the image are called dithering. The bottom image has no dithering because it used browser-safe colors, which look identical when viewed on millions, thousands or 256 color displays.

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