I am seeing several eCommerce sites showing color labels (text) instead of color swatches (not thumbnails) on their product listings. I wonder why?
I know that color labels can be good for people being color blind, but for other users visually seeing available colours, isn’t that better?

A site that uses color labels:
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4lHZJ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4lHZJ.jpg)

A site that uses color swatches:
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tsT64.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tsT64.jpg)