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Dave Heinemann 🇦🇺replied to 🎃 smashur cabrera last edited by [email protected]
@ashur Looking at MDN, there are far more named colours than I realised.
But who is Rebecca, and why did she decide that `rebeccapurple` should be #663399?
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets | MDN
The CSS data type is the name of a color, such as red, blue, black, or lightseagreen. Syntactically, a is an .
MDN Web Docs (developer.mozilla.org)
Edit: I just found out - it's a bittersweet story. `rebeccapurple` was named in honour of a young girl who died of cancer.
TIL: rebeccapurple
While polishing my theme, I discovered Rebecca. I love it, when technology gets some human touch. | markentier.tech
markentier.tech (markentier.tech)
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🎃 smashur cabrerareplied to Dave Heinemann 🇦🇺 last edited by
@dHeinemann `rebeccapurple` has a pretty special origin
Rebeccapurple = #663399 | CSS-Tricks
... it is suggested to add the named color 'rebeccapurple', for value #663399, to CSS Color Level 4. This is a tribute to Eric Meyer's daughter who recently
CSS-Tricks (css-tricks.com)
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Dave Heinemann 🇦🇺replied to 🎃 smashur cabrera last edited by
@ashur It's such a bittersweet story.
I'll have to find an opportunity to use `rebeccapurple` somewhere.