Alex Sexton: Peachpuffs and Lemonchiffons [CSSConfUS2014]

Alex Sexton's CSSConf US 2014 talk traces the odd history of named colors in CSS, from X11 names to oddities like peachpuff and lemonchiffon. It is a funny tour of how these names ended up in the web's color vocabulary.

HN people recommend it as the entertaining full history of CSS color names, usually alongside color-picker and color-naming projects.

“Here's a greatly entertaining talk about the whacky history of the bizarre naming of colors in CSS”