Here's my attempt to put together a color palette using only colors that have names in the html/css spec:

[url]http://jsfiddle.net/danneu/284p9qp9/1/[/url]

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/k-b-lbqt.png[/img]

Unfortunately the color names are kinda unwieldy:

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/57ish4v6.png[/img]

I like the simplicity of just using hex values and named colors as they appear in html/css.

But another idea is to allow hex values but come up with my own color names: red1, red2, red3, orange1, orange2, orange3, aqua1, aqua2, aqua3. You'd be able to make sense of the colors. And I could map them to hex values instead of approximating a palette with named colors (slim pickings).

A third option is to stop obsessing over colors as a form of procrastination. :lol