CSS "color" vs. "font-color"

Question

Anyone know why CSS provides "color:" for text, but does not have "font-color:" or "text-color:"?

Seems very counter-intuitive.. kind of like "text-decoration: bold" rather than "font-style: ".

I must be new here.

:o)

Seriously, does anyone know why/how the w3c came up with such a wide array of CSS names like this?

Answer 1

The same way Boston came up with its street plan. They followed the cow paths already there, and built houses where the streets weren't, and after a while it was too much trouble to change.

Answer 2

I would think that one reason could be that the color is applied to things other than font. For example:

div {
    border: 1px solid;
    color: red;
}

Yields both a red font color and a red border.

Alternatively, it could just be that the W3C's CSS standards are completely backwards and nonsensical as evidenced elsewhere.