CSS Named Colors: Groups, Palettes, Facts, & Fun

Austin Gil
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readJan 24, 2023

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Did you know that CSS has Named Colors? Yeah, you’re probably familiar with “white” or “black”. But did you know there are 148 named color keywords?

Some of them are silly, some are common, and some are down right useless. Who’s going to think, “You know what color we need here? Freakin’ blanchedalmond!”

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