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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

(michaelcharl.es)
877 points thunderbong | 5 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.788s | source
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swayvil ◴[17 Nov 24 05:01 UTC] No.42162092[source]▶
It's a nice purple.
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1. usbsea ◴[17 Nov 24 06:23 UTC] No.42162357[source]▶
A simple one too - it would be on a 216 colour pallete using six values for each of R, G and B.

R = 1/5

G = 2/5

B = 3/5

Edit: of course that makes sense it is probably a "web safe" one

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2. kijin ◴[17 Nov 24 06:59 UTC] No.42162458[source]▶
If it's such a simple combination, I wonder why it wasn't officially named until 2014. CSS has had names for all sorts of weird colors since forever.
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3. duskwuff ◴[17 Nov 24 08:09 UTC] No.42162736[source]▶
Most CSS color names were inherited from the X11 color list [1], which, in turn, sourced its colors from a weird mixture of Crayola crayons, paint samples, and idiosyncratic personal choices [2]. It's a mess.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/di...

[2]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272....

4. labster ◴[17 Nov 24 08:16 UTC] No.42162761[source]▶
Maybe it wasn’t named so that long after people like me pass from memory for good, people will still speak of Rebecca and of the love we showed her.
5. jwilk ◴[17 Nov 24 18:54 UTC] No.42166071[source]▶
It's R = 2/5, G = 1/5.