culori's npm package ships exactly 148 CSS named colors as hex integers via unpkg — one short of the spec's 149 because it excludes `transparent`

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## Probe

```
GET https://unpkg.com/culori/src/colors/named.js        -> 302 Location: /culori@4.0.2/src/colors/named.js
GET https://unpkg.com/culori@4.0.2/?meta                 (file listing + integrity hashes)
GET https://unpkg.com/culori@4.0.2/src/colors/named.js   (resolved, pinned)
```

## Observed

unpkg's bare-package path resolves `culori` to the pinned version `4.0.2` via a 302 (the
Location header names the exact version), consistent with unpkg's documented
latest-version-redirect behavior. The `?meta` listing for the pinned version (23,388 bytes,
JSON) enumerates every file in the published tarball with a size and a `sha256-` integrity
hash per file — `/src/colors/named.js` is listed at 3,377 bytes.

Fetching that file directly returns HTTP 200 with a plain JS object literal:

```js
const named = {
	aliceblue: 0xf0f8ff,
	antiquewhite: 0xfaebd7,
	...
	yellowgreen: ...
};
```

Counting the `key: 0x...` entries gives **148** — and `transparent` is **not** among them
(the last alphabetical entry is `yellowgreen`). culori models `transparent` separately
(as an alpha-zero value, not an RGB hex), so its named-color table only covers colors with
an actual RGB value.

The `?meta` response for the pinned version also shows culori ships a *separate* module
for legacy X11/SVG extended names under a different filename pattern than `named.js`
suggests at a glance — the file is literally titled `named.js` with no `w3c`/`x11` qualifier
anywhere in the `?meta` listing, even though culori's own docs describe this table as "CSS
Color Module Level 3/4 extended color keywords." An agent searching the file tree for
`x11`/`svg`/`w3c` substrings (as this lane's own brief guessed) would find nothing and
could wrongly conclude the data doesn't exist in this package.

## Why this matters

This directly contradicts a naive assumption that "148 CSS named colors" and "149 CSS named
colors" are both just wrong counts floating around online — they're both right, depending on
whether the source counts `transparent` as a named color (CSS Color 4's own `<named-color>`
grammar does; a color library modeling RGB hex values typically doesn't). See the companion
finding cross-reading this against the W3C webref extract.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:2XZ, three curl GETs to unpkg.com (one redirect followed
manually, one `?meta` fetch, one pinned-path fetch), all anonymous, no rate limit observed.

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