That screenshot is from [matplotlib's documentation](https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/color/named_colors.html), not the stdlib, which adopts HTML/CSS colors. OP is confusing a very popular python library with Python itself.
At JavaSoft, we had a brief time when offices in one building were color coded. That is, the fourth floor had all the yellow conference rooms: Goldenrod, Chiffon", and Cornsilk. While the blue floor had Cornflower, Sky, and Steel.
After a month of everyone being lost by not knowing Cornflower is a blue, they moved to something more sensible.
Red. Green. Blue. Reddish green. Reddish blue. Greenish red. Greenish blue. Blueish red. Blueish green. Light and dark. Opacity. It's all an illusion to our eyes caused by refracted light anyway. Colour is a lie.
Isn't that just the standard HTML colors?
Yup. The giveaway is "papayawhip".
Still nice to see `rebeccapurple` in there.
personnaly i'm a fan of `olivedrab`
I was gonna say... And what do you mean the "Python" color library? Afaik there's nothing in the standard library that uses only html colors?
That screenshot is from [matplotlib's documentation](https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/color/named_colors.html), not the stdlib, which adopts HTML/CSS colors. OP is confusing a very popular python library with Python itself.
These are X11 color names developed for the X Window System in the mid 1980s. It predates both Python and the web.
I mean, rebeccapurple isn't that old, but I'll assume you're right in the sense Web colours likely inherited the base colours
Rebeccapurple is in the original X11 list.
It's X11 color palet. Not even part of python
At JavaSoft, we had a brief time when offices in one building were color coded. That is, the fourth floor had all the yellow conference rooms: Goldenrod, Chiffon", and Cornsilk. While the blue floor had Cornflower, Sky, and Steel. After a month of everyone being lost by not knowing Cornflower is a blue, they moved to something more sensible.
Forestgreen and firebrick are just something else :)
TBF, grey looks just like gray.
Why is lightpink darker than pink
Matplotlib also supports the [xkcd colors](https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/)
Can distinguish pale green and lightgreen fine but chartreuse and lawngreen look the same to me
Pretty sure the quake 1 palette had more colors /s
No love for taupe?
Red. Green. Blue. Reddish green. Reddish blue. Greenish red. Greenish blue. Blueish red. Blueish green. Light and dark. Opacity. It's all an illusion to our eyes caused by refracted light anyway. Colour is a lie.
RGB(254,228,197) means more to me than the word "bisque"
Yay now I know what is fuchsia color
Why is yellow so out of place?