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by kijin 584 days ago
If it's such a simple combination, I wonder why it wasn't officially named until 2014. CSS has had names for all sorts of weird colors since forever.
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duskwuff 584 days ago
Most CSS color names were inherited from the X11 color list [1], which, in turn, sourced its colors from a weird mixture of Crayola crayons, paint samples, and idiosyncratic personal choices [2]. It's a mess.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/di...

[2]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272....

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labster 584 days ago
Maybe it wasn’t named so that long after people like me pass from memory for good, people will still speak of Rebecca and of the love we showed her.
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