diff --git a/src/gui/painting/qcolor.cpp b/src/gui/painting/qcolor.cpp
index d576564192..7541059f77 100644
--- a/src/gui/painting/qcolor.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/painting/qcolor.cpp
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static QStringList get_colornames()
 
     A color can be set by passing an RGB string (such as "#112233"),
     or an ARGB string (such as "#ff112233") or a color name (such as "blue"),
-    to the setNamedColor() function.
+    to the fromString() function.
     The color names are taken from the SVG 1.0 color names. The name()
     function returns the name of the color in the format
     "#RRGGBB". Colors can also be set using setRgb(), setHsv() and
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ QColor::QColor(Spec spec) noexcept
 
     Returns the name of the color in the specified \a format.
 
-    \sa setNamedColor(), NameFormat
+    \sa fromString(), NameFormat
 */
 
 QString QColor::name(NameFormat format) const
diff --git a/src/widgets/doc/src/widgets-and-layouts/stylesheet.qdoc b/src/widgets/doc/src/widgets-and-layouts/stylesheet.qdoc
index d255b3b98f..e37d5ea51d 100644
--- a/src/widgets/doc/src/widgets-and-layouts/stylesheet.qdoc
+++ b/src/widgets/doc/src/widgets-and-layouts/stylesheet.qdoc
@@ -2927,7 +2927,7 @@
            | \tt{hsl(\e{h}, \e{s}, \e{l})} \br
            | \tt{hsla(\e{h}, \e{s}, \e{l}, \e{a})} \br
            | \tt{#\e{rrggbb}} \br
-           | \l{QColor::setNamedColor()}{Color Name} \br
+           | \l{QColor::fromString()}{Color Name} \br
         \li Specifies a color as RGB (red, green, blue), RGBA (red,
            green, blue, alpha), HSV (hue, saturation, value), HSVA
            (hue, saturation, value, alpha), HSL (hue, saturation,
diff --git a/tests/auto/gui/kernel/qguivariant/test/tst_qguivariant.cpp b/tests/auto/gui/kernel/qguivariant/test/tst_qguivariant.cpp
index aea5cb3ac3..093b9c8eaf 100644
--- a/tests/auto/gui/kernel/qguivariant/test/tst_qguivariant.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/gui/kernel/qguivariant/test/tst_qguivariant.cpp
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ void tst_QGuiVariant::toColor_data()
     QTest::newRow("qstring(#ff0000)") << QVariant(QString::fromUtf8("#ff0000")) << c;
     QTest::newRow("qbytearray(#ff0000)") << QVariant(QByteArray("#ff0000")) << c;
 
-    c.setNamedColor("#88112233");
+    c = QColor::fromString("#88112233");
     QTest::newRow("qstring(#88112233)") << QVariant(QString::fromUtf8("#88112233")) << c;
     QTest::newRow("qbytearray(#88112233)") << QVariant(QByteArray("#88112233")) << c;
 }