Out of curiosity: Are there any other semantically unrelated color names in the spec?
There's also Peru, but I'm not sure what that's about.
- You can see it in the Andes mountains: http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/8000/8924/...
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Sh...
- You can see it in the clay that is used for rooftops: http://curanderos.ru/peru/18374000.jpg
- The color of the salt mines: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/maras-salt-mines-peruvian-and...
- In the huge amount of peruvian clay pottery: https://www.google.com/search?q=peruvian+andes&espv=2&biw=12...
* Un the die for the textiles: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/63/9b/34/639b34468...
* Even in natural disasters when the river flows out ("huaycos") and destroys roads: http://cde.publimetro.e3.pe/ima/0/0/0/1/7/17391.jpg
Surprised there is a peruvian brown - but it makes sense to me :)
It originated as a color name ("Peruvian Brown") in the 1920's, though I'd be interested in seeing how that happened.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/247129/why-is-per...
I'm not sure my question is good enough to stay open, but we'll see.
Here's a full list:
`dodgerblue` and `aliceblue` are pretty damning...I don't see much reason rebeccapurple shouldn't be added at that point. I guess there's the argument of not personalizing the content more than it already is.
There's also the argument of how much utility all these colour names actually have - if you did a survey of the colours specified in the CSS of all sites on the Internet, I bet a huge proportion of the ones that use colour names are the common ones like "black", "white", "red", "green", etc.; and the rest are specified in hex. All these other seldom-used names just take up space in every single piece of software that wants to claim compliance with CSS4 standard.
Especially with the development of CSS preprocessors, it feels to me like hex colours would suffice; and perhaps the primary and secondary colours.