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by yyx 1915 days ago
A good IDE will show a color preview https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/docs/languages/css/colo...
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And if you use a CSS pre-processor or—better yet—CSS custom properties you get your descriptive color anyway:

    --text-color: cornsilk;
    --background-color: peru;
Awesome if you're in your office on your usual work computer. Not great if you're in the field trying to make quick fixes on whatever terminal a client provides.
In which reality do you need to monkey patch CSS color values on a terminal directly to production? With no possibility of running a IDE?
I doubt many web developers will ever find themselves "on the field" with someone else's computer and no web browser to work with.
Is there any tool that you can rely on if you're "in the field" on "whatever terminal a client provides?"