In 2002, "X11's color name is a damn thing to erase from this world leaving a stain on a wonderful CSS design element, saying that the color name of X11 was" designed "is an insult to the word ...

Human vision may be responsible for the hierarchy of color names found across the world, with names for easier-to-see wavelengths becoming fixed in a culture first, scientists say.

That birthed "aquamarine," "orchid," and "salmon," to name a few. By 2001, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the first working draft of the CSS 3 Color Module that would include the ...

But not all of Farrow & Ball’s paint color names are abstract. One of this year’s new colors is the plainly named Yellowcake, “a classic bright yellow named to reflect the revival of the ...