[smoe]

When I started web dev in the early 2000s, I remember it being recommended to use the named colors because of them being more consistent accross different monitors. Not sure if this was true at all and/or only for the original 16 basic colors.

Nonetheless, I kept using them for a while, because I think it makes the css easier to read, when having names (even suboptimal ones) over hex codes.

But with the introduction of css preprocessors in the late 2000s that allow defining variables, I have not used them since.

[xmprt]

This might be a dumb question but how would named colors be more consistent across monitors? I thought they mapped to the same RGB value so there would be no difference between 'red' and #FF0000.

[smoe]

I remembered it wrongly. It wasn't about named colors, but "web-safe colors" that can be displayed by 256 color displays directly, without having to fallback to the closest color or by using dithering. Some of them happened to have a name attached to it. Don't know if the original 16 named colors are also all safe colors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Web-safe_colors

[quickthrower2]

I weirdly miss colour limitations!

That said where is my UV value?