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Plam
Plam

Reputation: 379

Where do the CSS color names come from?

I was looking for color options for a theme I was working on and there was a bunch of odd names for regular colors. Some of the colors were FireBrick for red, Gainsboro for light grey, NavajoWhite for a subtle yellow color which makes no sense because it is not at all white. Does anyone know why these names exist?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 155

Answers (1)

BoltClock
BoltClock

Reputation: 723498

Those extended color names are imported from SVG, which itself takes from the X11 color system. See section 4.3 of css3-color.

If you're asking how those names were chosen to begin with, that's not something anyone but those who originally named the colors can answer (although, according to this mailing list reference from Wikipedia, one of the comments on your question is somewhat on point re: Crayola colors).

Upvotes: 8

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