CSS just got a new logo. It's colored rebeccapurple, a special color with a story that you might not know about.
The Tale of rebeccapurple
The name rebeccapurple represents a sad story in the web development community. The color (#663399) was added to the CSS color palette in 2014 as a tribute to Rebecca Meyer, the six-year-old daughter of renowned web developer Eric Meyer, who tragically passed away from brain cancer.
During her short life, Rebecca had a love for purple, and after her passing, the idea to immortalize her in CSS gained popularity in the web community. It began as a suggestion on social media and quickly gained traction, leading to its formal adoption in the CSS Color Module Level 4. As Eric Meyer himself expressed, it was a bitter-sweet gesture, one that ensured Rebecca's memory would be interwoven with the web's foundation.
CSS's New Logo
Fast-forward to today, and CSS has unveiled a modernized logo. The power of CSS has grown from simple styling to complex layouts, animations, and interactivity. Its sleek design embodies the forward-thinking nature of CSS, reflecting its capability to create immersive web experiences. The rebranding highlights CSS's role in web development and positions it as a future-ready technology. Now, Rebecca is honored even in the CSS logo.
New features
Check out the awesome new features of CSS here:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-web-ui-io-2024
Tailwind CSS v4 Beta is going to be supporting many new features of CSS; if you want an overview, read here:
Discuss!
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Will this be css4 version?, cause it's renovating most things, adding new things and even changed whole logo appreance
There will actually never be a CSS4!
Sounds weird, right? I was gonna name this post 'CSS4 is released!' or something like that, but did some research and discovered this would be incorrect.
As the MDN Web Docs say:
For example, we have a CSS Color Module Level 5 and a CSS Flexbox Module Level 1.
Maybe I should write a post about this! π
Interesting, it would be beneficial to know about history of this, a post would be highly appreciated
CSS logo used to be similar to that of HTML, now looks more like the Javascript logo π .
a conspiracy theory is cooking in my head π₯²
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rebeccapurple is always my go to test colour. So sad. Nice that her memory has been preserved.
Yep.
Just out of curiosity, what is a 'test color'?
You know, trying to test a hoover effect it something. Many people use background-color:red
Oh yeah. I used to use blue, not red, but I understand now. :)
First I thought that logo just looks ugly, but I guess it makes a bit of sense since CSS is used to change the
border-radius.well... anyways, not a logo I'm gonna see often π
I think a lot of code editors will be adding it as the CSS file icon, so you might see it more than you expect!
Sad
Also cool new features :)
Thanks for reading!
I'm glad that there's new patterns in this. It looks fantastic. I visited your link at bottom.
Please, what's that CSS release ?
The new logo Looking nice
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They start with Html and now landed in JS
Absolutely incredible! π».
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