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[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 36 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

do people actually use color names in webdev?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

Not really, but I feel like grayscale values would have been the most useful still, after black and white.

With colors like orange, blue etc., the hue and lightness play a big role. But with grayscale values, it's pretty much just the lightness you care about, so there's a much higher chance of such a named value fitting what you want...

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 65 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I sometimes do for testing. Is this css working? I don't know, change the background to red as that will stand out

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 9 hours ago

You know you're desperate when you bust out that background-color: red

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 13 points 19 hours ago

Red? Hotpink or bust!

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 11 hours ago

Red green blue when setting a BG color to remember a layer, but that's it.

[–] Dack@programming.dev 7 points 20 hours ago
[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I don't, except the "red means testing" scenario. It's 1½ keystrokes less than #f00