It is recommendable to type the color's name instead of its hex value in CSS?

Question

I always forget what colors I\'m dealing with in CSS when I see it hex value. I would like to use the name instead (e.g color: lightgreen). Is it supported by all browsers?

Answer 1

Now every popular browsers support the 17 base colors plus 130 more color name http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-color-20030514/#svg-color and http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colornames.asp

So not only you can safely use those 17 base colors name but you can also use the 130 SVG 1.0 color keyword names