In 2024, the web development world celebrated the first official CSS logo—but behind its vibrant purple color lies a heartbreaking story. This video reveals the emotional journey of Eric Meyer and the origin of #rebeccapurple, a touching tribute to his daughter Rebecca. Discover how the global CSS community came together to design a logo that’s more than just a symbol—it's a legacy. 💜
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Hello What's up guys, I would like to tell you that
finally we have our very first official
CSS logo, yes guys, which is something like this, for a
second, before showing it, I would like to know from you this,
even before this, we had the logo of CSS, a
different logo of CSS,
a different logo of CSS 3, so then which was that
logo which has been introduced in November 2024,
it was told as the
very first official CSS logo, it
means whatever logo we were using before this,
they were just representing that
yes this is CSS, this is CSS three, but
whatever it is, this is how your very first official
CSS logo looks like and
one thing can come to your mind, friend, I mean why like
because the work of CSS is to touch up like
bridal makeup, you know like whether it is like a
man or a human, when they come after doing makeup, then the
guy turns over, but with CSS we
thought that like this will become a wow logo, but very
basic it looks like a 90s logo
This is a rectangle box in your logo with
border radius on three sides and
end with like you know CSS written in the bottom right. So
now why is this color purple at the top?
What do I mean here? I don't know like why did
they do this but believe
me, there is a very heart breaking story behind it.
When you listen to it, your heart will
connect with this logo purely.
Okay. And secondly,
who made this logo and why was it made?
Today I am going to share these two stories with you. So
guys, this is an informational video, so
you are going to enjoy it a lot. So
guys, first of all, now we will understand why this
CSS logo and the purple color in this logo, there is
a very sad story behind it,
a heart broken story which is
very important for you to understand. So, the
only color that you are seeing
in the CSS logo is not a purple color.
It is your Rebecca purple color. You
can say Rebecca purple color. Okay. And
I would like to tell you one thing, this is the
purple color of Reverence. No, this CSS and level
four, which is the CSS level four color
palette, whatever you may call it, it was introduced there
in 2014, think about it, this color is with us since 2014,
how many of you did
not pay enough attention or focus to it, what
happened, so what do we have to do with the purple color of Rebecca, but
guys here is this story and
that is 2014, yes guys, in 2014, Eric
Meyer, many of you might have heard his name
because he had made his whole life kind of
dependent on CSS,
like he wrote books for CSS only,
author, I guess you must have seen his book
many times, so guys, Eric Meyer
was such a big name and like in 2014,
he had a daughter Rebecca, okay, she was
6 years old, exactly 6 years old, and
I guess hardly 6 years old, yaar, it was just a few hours
that like he passed away and now he is in
this If Eric Meyer is no more in this world, then in 2014, his
daughter died when she was six
years old. So guys, the
CSS community felt that
he has given so much to CSS, so let
us reduce his grief a little. So to reduce that grief, guys,
someone in the community put forward a proposal, you know, and that is,
why don't we
make a color in the memory of his daughter? We gave a name to a color. In
that way, there is a hexa code, that there is
a shade of purple. So,
they proposed the color Rebecca Purple. I mean,
we want to add this name to
whatever CSS level four pet we have.
Eric also approved it in that way.
Eric Meyer, you know, who
lost his daughter, said, okay, I do
n't have any problem with it. You can use this name. So,
in 2014, this color was added by naming it as Rebecca Purple.
Many of you might have used this name as well. So, in
this way, this new color was added. CSS logo,
guys, the color in it is purple, not just
purple, it's your Rebecca purple color, so this
color is guys,
it is dedicated in the memory of Eric Meyer's daughter, Rebecca, I mean the
entire CSS logo is
dedicated to his daughter,
so you saw guys, something that
looks very normal, there is such a big story behind it, I
mean the person who
gave so much to CSS, when he
lost his daughter, I mean how much pain he must have felt, so at least the
people of CSS community thought that why can't we do
this much like for him,
friend, I mean the
color of his daughter's name was added to the CSS logo itself,
Rebecca purple, right, now this was the story and I guess
you must be feeling good after listening to this story,
okay, you did a good thing, you know,
if you do a simple thing to win someone's heart, more than showing something, that's more than enough
and now the second and that is why, I
mean, from where and who made it So I
would like to tell you who made this proposal, guys in
August
2024, I mean in 2014, this color was
ready. Okay, now back to August
2024, some advocate of Google Chrome itself,
he made a proposal, an open
proposal and that is that we want a new
official logo and he made it
open. Now what happened was that
all the designers from all over the world made their own
CSS logos and submitted them, so it took
many months and I guess
in November 2024, a logo, yes, we have finalized this logo as the
CSS official logo,
I mean now it's done, this is final, so after
going there, this logo was
finalized and guys, the person whose design was finalized,
his name was Javi, okay,
I will give his link in the description below,
you can understand a little more behind the scene story,
but by looking at this logo,
guys you come to know that there is a humanity behind it,
yes brother, even now humanity is present in this generation. The
rest is yes guys and I guess
it was a very beautiful
thinking whenever he designed this logo
that if you
dedicate your life or some of your things to someone then that is a huge thing, that is why the
whole world loves Ratan Tata ji so much
because whatever he used to earn,
he has given some percentage of it every time, I mean like for the
help of the poor
or for any organization,
whatever it is, like this is life, like
the more you donate, the more God will
give you, so guys this was the
official purpose behind your CSS logo, not official
but just a community, the CSS
community wanted that brother let us
dedicate it for them, which is a very good
thing, so that's why now this is your
very first CSS official logo, so guys
how did you like this story and so please
tell us by commenting below and if you have
any other such tech related story which
we may not know, then please
tell us by commenting, I will definitely check it out and
I will try next time to
share it with the world but yes guys that's
all for this video today and I hope finally
now you must have come to know that this is the very
first CSS official logo and not just a
purple, there is a Rebecca purple colour, its
name is okay and I would like to tell you guys if you want to
learn CS then I have already
uploaded a world base CSS video,
complete 18 hours, I guess you will
not find anything better than this, so you can check that out as well,
okay, I will share its link with
you in the description and comment section below,
alright guys, so that's all
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