How to keep track of color variables (colors) in a large project?

Question

Project management

Hello, I'm currently working on a large project that has a separate list of variables for colors. At the moment it looks like this
$color_black
$color_dark_black
$color_black2
$color_very_dark_black
In general, a complete mess. Please tell me how to keep the names of variable colors in order (we refer to them often).

Answer 1

Name them functionally, not by content.
color_header
color_body
etc.

Answer 2

As if taken from my project. Not sass by any chance?
A lot of advice has been given above. I do not claim to be an expert, but in my opinion it is correct to give a color a meaningful name.
Those. you are doing everything right.
But then, as GavriKos said, do it this way, but with slight changes in the
pseudocode (too lazy to remember the syntax)

//Цвета
$color_black:#000000;
//Цвет хэдэра
$color_header=$color_black;

Separate colors in your project. They can be constants as well (in the sense they are, because $color_black won't be #ffffff )
Separate project elements.
Give the element your color, your style, whatever.