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		SkyMarshal on May 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Extracting Colors With Colorific Very awesome. Google's logo has 255 colors (including shades). With most other companies I might consider that to be a coincidence.

chime on May 11, 2012 [–]

255 is not because Google designers chose 255 specific shades but rather the limitation of 8-bit GIF color palette.

joshu on May 11, 2012 | [–]

https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png

lekevicius on May 11, 2012 | | [–]

256 (not 255) color palette also applies to 8-bit PNGs.

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