When choosing colors in code, the standard is to use hex or rgb codes where #F30F30 ends up meaning a nice RED color. Another option to use semantic color names like Red, Blue, Purple, Dark Blue, etc.
While the best practice is to use hex or rgb because they are more standardized and work-with-able, the semantic ones are a fun way to make the, at first, intimidating world of code, a little more accessible.
It turns out that, in addition to the standard colors we learned in preschool, there are a lot of--let's say--creative names, which remind us that tech people have a sense of humor and like to leave clues of it sometimes. We noticed things take a decidedly American West theme in the red-yellow spectrum :)
Here are some of our favorites:
Salmon Light and Dark
LightCoral
IndianRed <---yikes!
Tomato
LemonChiffon
PapayaWhip
Moccasin
PeachPuff
Cornsilk
BlanchedAlmond
NavajoWhite
BurlyWood
Chocolate
SaddleBrown
Honeydew
MintCream
GhostWhite
OldLace
Going from the wide-eyed world of Peachpuff fuzz to the exhilarating world of #3C332E maturity
Eventually as one delves deeper into web design, projects will demand subtleties not afforded by the relatively small rolladex of semantic web colors. A simple example is having a graduated gradient. Another example if you were going to perform a mathematical operation on a color, like say with a preprocessor, semantic colors take a backseat to their integer-based counterparts as with:
@coolcolor=lighten(#CCC, 20%);