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

(michaelcharl.es)
877 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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langsoul-com ◴[17 Nov 24 05:48 UTC] No.42162264[source]▶
> The color was originally going to be called beccapurple, but Meyer asked that it instead be named rebeccapurple, as his daughter had wanted to be called Rebecca once she had turned six. She had said that Becca was a "baby name," and that once she had turned six, she wanted to be called Rebecca. As Eric Meyer put it, "She made it to six. For almost twelve hours, she was six. So Rebecca it is and must be."

Wasn't expecting tears over a colour

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jvm___ ◴[17 Nov 24 07:42 UTC] No.42162624[source]▶
..in 2014 in honor of Eric Meyer's daughter, Rebecca, who passed away at the age of six on her birthday from brain cancer.
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1. edoloughlin ◴[17 Nov 24 11:51 UTC] No.42163673[source]▶
I think finding a meaningful way recognise a significant contributor in a way that doesn’t really impact anyone is something to be encouraged. I imagine that most people would use the hex code anyway and only devs/designers would see the name in their tooling.

I can’t see how to apply logic to naming a colour. It’s fundamentally a perceptual and, dare I say it, emotional process.

I also think your comment is uncharitable and tone deaf.