Talk.CSS, which is Singapore’s monthly CSS meetup, has a segment called CSS colour of the month, where we mention 1 of the 148 named CSS colours. T...
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This is so neat! I always wondered where the CSS colors came from too - and now I know :)
Also thanks for the video link there - that's neat: TIL that when you're deciding between grey (with an 'e') and gray (with an 'a'), you can remember that England starts with an 'E', so it's grey in England, and America starts with an 'A', so it's gray there... that always messed me up!
i know right? when Alex said that, my mind was blown!
No discussion of CSS colour names shouild leave out the heartbreaking story of the newest addition to the spec: rebeccapurple
Thank you! When I teach HTML/CSS I always remember AliceBlue and IndianRed, but I couldn't remember RebeccaPurple
Great article and great work digging into the old days!!!
glad you enjoyed it. the digging into mailing list threads was pretty fun, tbh :p
Such a fun topic! Creating colour schemes for websites using only named colours can be a great challenge.