Naming Color Variables in SASS

Question

When creating a color scheme in SASS what's the conventional variable names for defining colors?

I know using color names are bad. Such as:

$blue
$red
$green

But I've not seen an alternative. I'm struggling for variable names for colors on the site that convey meaning.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I found another idea in "SASS & Color Variables" article. The solution suggested by Sacha Greif is to use some variables to store descriptive color names, and some other to assign those colors to their functions:

 // first we set descriptive variables:
 $darkgrey: #333333;
 $blue: #001eff;

 // then we set functional variables:
 $text_color: $darkgrey;
 $link_color: $lightblue;
 $border_color: $lightblue;

 .myClass {
   color: $text_color;
   border-color: $border_color;
 }

 a {
   color: $link_color;
 }

I'm just beginning with SASS and don't know which approach is more practical, but I like the way it separates colors from their function.