&gt;Perhaps the most vehement denunciation comes from a 2002 e-mail written by programmer Steven Pemberton: “The X11 colour names are an abomination that should have been stifled at birth, and adding them to CSS is a blemish on the otherwise excellent design of CSS.<p>Now I don&#x27;t have much experience with CSS.  Only have been using it for ~5 years, and never any of the real complex magic.  But if I were to make a list of design problems I have with CSS, color names wouldn&#x27;t even make it on the list.