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by mceachen 1918 days ago
Yup. There's a bunch like that.

Know that CSS colors mostly came from X11: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names

The CSS team shares some blame, though: they adopted them (and they really didn't need to: they could have just supported rgb/hsb/lab triplets).