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		Tempest1981 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A visualization of the RGB space covered by named ... And how far things have come since the X11 color names

mceachen 25 days ago [–]

X11 color names are atrociously bad. Inconsistent prefixes and suffixes, flatly wrong names for many handfuls of RGB triplets, and it’s what got hard wired into CSS and HTML.

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