Mozilla color question

[dorayme]

but anyone with a
modest knowledge of the hexadecimal colour space could tell from a
glance that #FFE4B5 is a pale yellowish-orange.

And one with even more practice could see that it is also
resonant of the less tropical zone deserts, exhibiting
tantalizingly optimistic hints of moisture and lushness in the
abstract...

Back on Mars, we straight out express all this in a longer hex
specification... But I like the more straightforward ways of
earthlings