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They are colours that have names in CSS. You can access 16M colours with #RRGGBB syntax but these colours are aliases to specific values and can be specified by
by kevincox 4y ago
They are colours that have names in CSS. You can access 16M colours with #RRGGBB syntax but these colours are aliases to specific values and can be specified by name.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/named-color https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/named-color
- arethuza 4y agoDidn't those come from X11 - I'm sure I was using some of those for terminal settings long before the Web (let alone CSS).
- dspillett 4y ago> Didn't those come from X11 Almost. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_between_web_and_X11_colors_in_the_CSS_color_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_betwee... I remember, way back when some of hadn't been born and the web was new and exciting, noticing the difference in greys when using the same colour names in a desktop tool's output and it's HTML documentation.
- arethuza 4y agoI actually think I developed a preference for some colours and combinations based on using HyperNeWS, which had a particularly tasteful set of colour combinations (at least for 1990 or so!).