The CMC color difference function performs the worst in this comparison: https://beta.observablehq.com/@danburzo/nearest-css-named-colors <img width="352" alt="screen shot 2018-10-18 at 17 11 25" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/205375/47160646-107b3600-d2f9-11e8-86c4-ae30aa1bbece.png"> This makes me suspicious there's an error somewhere in the implementation.