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Am I the only one who giggles inside every time I see one of those 100s of named CSS colors being used? They have such cute names some of them. Anitquewhite, do
by andirk 4y ago
Am I the only one who giggles inside every time I see one of those 100s of named CSS colors being used? They have such cute names some of them. Anitquewhite, dodgerblue (boo!!), darkolivegreen, bloodstainred.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/named-color https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/named-color
- somebodynew 4y agoI enjoy using the CSS named colors for web design because it provides a limited set of options to choose from. It's easier to decide on the best choice from a limited set of options than it is to find the global maximum in the entire RGB space. I'll also forever have a fondness for "cornflower blue" because it was the default fill color when you created a new C# Xbox 360 game using Microsoft XNA.
- tyingq 4y agoPerhaps there's an earlier origin, but that looks like the old X11 color list that was in /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt This file: https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-rgb/blob/master/rgb.txt https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-rgb/blob/master/rgb.txt
- keville 4y agoThat is indeed the list of colors from which the Level 3 CSS colors were adapted.
- keville 4y agoDon't forget about downright heartwarming entries like rebeccapurple: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/ https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/