# test post

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**Created:** [November 9, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/737068 "2015-11-09T02:43:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/737068/1 "2015-11-09T02:43:27Z")

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Something I hadn’t known: Apparently there are a large number of named colors that most web sites will recognize. [Web colors - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors)

Blue

Olive

Teal

Navy

Magenta

LIME

Lavender

Chocolate

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**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/737068/2 "2015-11-09T02:47:54Z")

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Puce

That is _not_ Puce.

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**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/737068/3 "2015-11-09T03:39:19Z")

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Puce

That is not puce either.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-post/737068/4 "2015-11-09T09:20:01Z")

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There may be a lot more than that.

[Here’s a list of 500 named colors](http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm), including their RGB codes in hex and decimal.

ETA: Okay, on closer reading, he says that these color names can’t be used in HTML (which I assume means that _some_ of them can’t be used), but [here is another similar page with named colors that he says you _can_ use](http://cloford.com/resources/colours/namedcol.htm).

I have an older edition of _Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference_ (O’Reilly) that has a four-page table listing about 145 color names, that supposedly can all be used.