![]() ~ using Photoshop to find hex codes from images specifically for a CSS tool I need to use for my job. On the other hand, if Adobe were to drop hex from the color pickers, how many angry folks do you think we would hear from who still use an outdated workflow? And remember that W3Schools includes hex. I vividly remember being thrilled when hex first showed up in the color pickers! It made our web work so much easier! All the same, in my opinion its useful life is long since over and I don't remember when I last used it. "HTML colors are specified with predefined color names, or with RGB, HEX, HSL, RGBA, or HSLA Hex codes without the context of a particular color space are meaningless anyway and should be dropped from all color pickers. Monitors display more colors we have color management, and there are more ways to input colors when creating XHTML. This was in the days of 256 colors on monitors, 216 of which were the same on both PCs and Macs. Before PS had a text box for the hex codes, we had to go to the web, get the codes for the color, and then put the number into Notepad where we were typing the HTML code line by line. In those days, web colors had to either be one of a limited number of words (red, teal, violet.) or it had to be in hex. I remember when Adobe first added hexadecimal codes to Photoshop. Hex code is a bad habit, a leftover from the old days before modern color management was invented.
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