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Some of these seem very nit picky but if we are doing that my pet peeve was that the “color” property should have been named “text-color”

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It affects non-text as well, e.g., https://jsbin.com/wodevam/edit?css,output.

Wow. I've been writing CSS for 10+ years. I never knew that.

Or just "font-color" to match font-face and font-family. etc. That still gets me almost every time.

Color is not a property of font so I'd stick with "text-color"

Hold on a second here! It actually becomes the "currentColor" color in inlined SVGs, and the default fill color in svg when no color is defined. so oops, not a property strictly of text or fonts anymore. Maybe "foreground-color" would be appropriate?

color is as much a property of font as size is

Traditionally, font is just the shape of the characters (size, weight, italics). Other things (alignment, underline, wrap, color).

This is because "fonts" were originally physical typesetting blocks.

Some designers go further and say font refers only to the files and file formats; other things are the "typeface".

I believe the traditional usage is something like this: Helvetica is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic is a font.

Almost: Helvetica is a typeface family, Helvetica Bold Italic is a typeface, Helvetica Bold Italic 10pt is a font (or rather, the font is a case full of bits of metal with Helvetica Bold Italic 10pt)

Yeah, but fonts being recolored is a different thing than fonts having a color. https://www.colorfonts.wtf/

In practice it usually is part of the same font selection dialog in most software that you use to select the font face, size, bold/italic/underline, etc.

For example, the relevant button in Word is titled "Font Color"

Surely "text-colour"?

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