Brought to you by the unholy marriage between incompatible, pre-existing standards.
- Got curious about this. - One notable difference between X11 and W3C is the case of “Gray” and its variants. In HTML, “Gray” is specifically reserved for the 128 triplet (50% gray) . However, in X11, “gray” was assigned to the 190 triplet (74.5%) , which is close to W3C “Silver” at 192 (75.3%) , and had “Light Gray” at 211 (83%) and “Dark Gray” at 169 (66%) counterparts. As a result, the combined CSS 3.0 color list that prevails on the web today produces “Dark Gray” as a significantly lighter tone than plain “Gray” , because “Dark Gray” was descended from X11 – for it did not exist in HTML nor CSS level 1[8] – while “Gray” was descended from HTML. - “256 Shades of Gray” could be an interesting book, nonetheless - slightlydarkerbutnottoodarkgreyis my favourite grey
 
- Ah man, thanks for digging this up! I was always confused/annoyed by this! 🤍🩶🖤 
 
- Stuff like this is why I just used the hex color code vs the color name back in the day. - hsl is superior  - oklchanyone?- It doesn’t contain a labrador, but I’m open to being convinced. What’s the advantage? - it has lichs 
 
 
 
 
 
 
- Dude, “green” is not even close. The actual “green” is painful to look at - Could you elaborate? These are the colors that are rendered when you use the keyword I’ve listed. - Maybe I am confusing it with LaTeX - \color{green}I’m too lazy to check, tbh
 
 







