The color rebeccapurple

Gunnar Bittersmann
@gunnarbittersmann

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Why the color keyword rebeccapurple made it into CSS

Resources

The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.

The Color Purple

by Jeffrey Zeldman, 10 June 2014
rebeccapurple

by Eric Meyer, 19 June 2014
Re: [CfC] adding ‘rebeccapurple’ color to CSS Color Level 4

from Daniel Glazman on www-style@w3.org mailing list, 21 June 2014
Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty

by Eric Meyer, 24 December 2014
Design for Real Life

by Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher, A Book Apart
🎶 Purple Rain

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band live (video)
🎶 Purple Rain

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band live at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, 23 April 2016 (official audio)

Here’s what was said about this presentation on social media.

Sunrise on her sixth birthday.

Her last birthday, and probably her last sunrise.

She’s unconscious, unable to see it.

Not long now.
— eric_meyer.css (@meyerweb) June 7, 2014
An hour ago, at 6:45pm EDT, our daughter Rebecca Alison Meyer, Ahuva Raya bat Kayla, died. She was six years, eleven and a half hours old.
— eric_meyer.css (@meyerweb) June 7, 2014
Warum mein Avatar und der vieler anderer heute violett ist: http://t.co/wyYMNxo9WB #663399Becca
— Gunnar Bittersmann (@g16n) June 12, 2014
Today is Prince’s birthday (1958), and in his honor, Pantone defined the purple shade “Love Symbol #2”. Today is also my daughter’s birthday (2008) and deathday (2014), and in her honor, the CSS Working Group defined the color keyword 'rebeccapurple'.
— eric_meyer.css (@meyerweb) June 7, 2022