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

(michaelcharl.es)
877 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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swayvil ◴[17 Nov 24 05:01 UTC] No.42162092[source]▶
It's a nice purple.
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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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1. 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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2. 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....

3. 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.