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0 pointsarethuza3y ago0 comments

Didn't those come from X11 - I'm sure I was using some of those for terminal settings long before the Web (let alone CSS).

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dspillett3y ago· 1 in thread

> Didn't those come from X11

Almost. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names#Clashes_betwee...

I remember, way back when some of hadn't been born and the web was new and exciting, noticing the difference in greys when using the same colour names in a desktop tool's output and it's HTML documentation.

arethuzaOP3y ago

I actually think I developed a preference for some colours and combinations based on using HyperNeWS, which had a particularly tasteful set of colour combinations (at least for 1990 or so!).

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