Harvard Extension School
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development | Spring 2020

## Palettes

An 8-bit indexed image has a palette of up to 256 colors that the image can contain. Color information is not stored for each pixel, but rather just a reference to which color in the palette.

Palettes

- Exact (if 256 or fewer colors)
- Adaptive (weighted based upon colors in document)
- Web Palette (216 Web Safe Colors)
- System
  - Windows
  - Macintosh

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