Visited links are purple

A few weeks ago Kev Quirk asked: Do you use :visited on links? — and I said to myself: No! I don’t use visited links… but why don’t I use visited links?TL;DR: I’ve gone and styled visited links, and they’re purple.Blue and purpleI did a cursory five minutes of research and found Wikipedia still styles visited links (blue to purple). MDN does too. As does the GOV.UK design system — they have a special class to opt-out of the visited style. BBC News turns black links to grey, how emo.I decided to style visited links within my <main> body copy. Which to be fair is most links but not the big headings on my blog index for example. I was too intimidated to turn those purple. Maybe you can give me the courage to style those too?It looked a bit weird at first but I like the colourful additions to my blog.AccessibilityWCAG 2.2 guidelines have no requirement to differentiate visited from unvisited links. Regardless, visited links should meet all the same criteria applied to any link.There is…

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