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CSS has a new logo (and new features)! ๐ŸŽ‰

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.

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!

This post is tagged with #discuss! Let me know what you think in the comments.


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Himanshu Sorathiya โ€ข

Will this be css4 version?, cause it's renovating most things, adding new things and even changed whole logo appreance

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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:

You might have heard about CSS1, CSS2.1, or even CSS3. There will never be a CSS3 or a CSS4; rather, everything is now just "CSS" with individual CSS modules having version numbers.

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! ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Himanshu Sorathiya โ€ข

Interesting, it would be beneficial to know about history of this, a post would be highly appreciated

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Abdulmumin yaqeen โ€ข

CSS logo used to be similar to that of HTML, now looks more like the Javascript logo ๐Ÿ˜….

a conspiracy theory is cooking in my head ๐Ÿฅฒ

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๐Ÿคฃ

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G1itcher โ€ข

rebeccapurple is always my go to test colour. So sad. Nice that her memory has been preserved.

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Yep.

Just out of curiosity, what is a 'test color'?

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G1itcher โ€ข

You know, trying to test a hoover effect it something. Many people use background-color:red

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Oh yeah. I used to use blue, not red, but I understand now. :)

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ANIRUDDHA ADAK โ€ข

Absolutely incredible! ๐Ÿ˜ป.

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Gregor Schafroth โ€ข

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 ๐Ÿ˜‚

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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!

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Hritik Gautam โ€ข

They start with Html and now landed in JS

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Neurabot โ€ข

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 ?

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Abhishek โ€ข

โค๏ธ

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Boopathi โ€ข โ€ข Edited

The new logo Looking nice

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Alternate Existance โ€ข

Sad
Also cool new features :)

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Thanks for reading!

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