tuesday, march 13, 2007
Many standards arguments hide in these corners
Which is an extended color name in CSS, and which is an alpaca yarn color?
pistachio blanched almond midnight sky seashell barn red fire brick fern thistle old rose misty rose wedgwood blue navajo white denim peru mahogany corn silk nutmeg papaya whip dark spruce antique white
If you said the first column was Honey Lane Farms and the second was web design, you’d be correct! Also, you’d be lying; you can’t tell the difference. Bonus: both color systems include bisque and lemon chiffon.
I adore CSS color names. They are a perfect opportunity for making sneaky jokes, such as using all food-name colors (chocolate, tomato, honeydew, salmon, wheat), or making a snowman snow-colored. See the happy post-xmas tree for an example which happens to also illustrate my deep love for Unicode dingbats.
comments (2)
Just looked through your flickr and...oh my gosh you have a pleco fish!! I thought hardly anyone else in the world knows what one is. Yay!!
*does happy dance*
– Kiwiqueen on 3/13/2007 04:26:54
Well, I happen to know "firebrick" is an X11/Web color, since it's my preferred named color for "red" in the software I write/maintain... likewise, "misty rose", "navajo white", and "papaya whip" are so weird as to be memorable.
– Sigivald on 3/15/2007 12:54:52
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