RebeccaPurple

I’ve often wondered where all of those colour names come from in the CSS spec. Things like SkyBlue and DimGray. Who makes these up and how?

It turns out that no-one really knows but this mailing list reference said that they began in 1986 from MIT with an old X Windowing system (Courtesy of: BoltClock).

That said, tonight I did find out where the colour rebeccapurple (shown in the banner) came from and the story is a little sad. I know I won’t be able to do justice to the story, so read this from Eric Meyer and a small piece in tribute, to find out more of the story.

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