Rebecca purple

English

Etymology

Named in memory of the daughter of Web standards advocate Eric A. Meyer.

Noun

Rebecca purple (uncountable)

1. (Internet) A medium purple color represented by the hexadecimal RGB triplet #663399.

   Rebecca purple:  

   • 2016, Alex Libby, Mastering PostCSS for Web Design, page 376:

     At this point, try previewing the results of our demo, if all is well, we should see the same box as before, but this time with a slightly lighter shade of rebecca purple as its color:

   • 2017, Eric Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, page 856:

     In this example, instead of instantaneously changing a button's color value on hover, with CSS transitions the button can be set to gradually fade from magenta to rebecca purple over 200 milliseconds, even adding a 50-millisecond delay before transitioning.