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

(michaelcharl.es)
885 points thunderbong | 4 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.828s | 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. zanellato19 ◴[17 Nov 24 11:51 UTC] No.42163674[source]▶
It's the sort of emotions over logic we need more, you mean.
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2. aziaziazi ◴[17 Nov 24 13:31 UTC] No.42164111[source]▶
I mostly agree, but not for code lexical choices. The comment obviously lacks empathy and would be better unsung another tone and not words like graveyard.

Names are easier to learn and remember when universal. We know memorization works with associations and Chocolate, PaleTurquoise and Aqua are great for that. Chartreuse and DodgerBlue aren’t. While I can personnaly relate to the first the second is totally alien. Both lacks a bit more universality IMHO.

Absolute universality isn’t achievable but I stand that is a usefull direction to head to.

I’m deeply sorry for Eric’s daughter and gratefull for his work. I’m sure there’s other ways to honor them.

PS: thanks for the HN post, now I can relate to RebeccaPurple!

3. kibwen ◴[17 Nov 24 14:45 UTC] No.42164436[source]▶
Not even this. There's no "logical" argument against it. The CSS color names are largely arbitrary and always have been (e.g. "indigo" is a shade of purple, when IRL indigo is the plant that produces the dye for blue jeans). Color names in general have been arbitrary since long before Newton coined ROYGBIV and decided to use "blue" to mean what we call "cyan" today.

It's an attitude that presumes that we can apply logic to all walks of life, which ironically is an inherently illogical stance.

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4. hombre_fatal ◴[17 Nov 24 18:17 UTC] No.42165791[source]▶
Yeah, that's the main oversight of the OP that makes them look silly.

There was no logic to the naming scheme. It was all arbitrary, and the names came in waves from various sources like house paint colors, Crayolas, and the whims of people behind various implementations.

If they replaced '#663399' with 'rebeccapurple' maybe they'd have a point.