Turquoise (color)

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Turquoise
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #40E0D0
B (r, g, b) (64, 224, 208)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
The water of Havasu creek is turquoise due to high concentrations of dissolved lime picked up as it runs through sedimentary rock.
The water of Havasu creek is turquoise due to high concentrations of dissolved lime picked up as it runs through sedimentary rock.

Turquoise is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. The color is based on the gem turquoise. The term comes from the French for Turkish.

The first recorded use of Turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. [1]

The mosque with turquoise domes in Buhara
The mosque with turquoise domes in Buhara




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[edit] Variations of Turquoise

[edit] Pale Turquoise

Pale Turquoise
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #AFEEEE
B (r, g, b) (175, 238, 238)
HSV (h, s, v) (175°, 84%, 94%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color pale turquoise.

[edit] Medium Turquoise

Medium Turquoise
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #48D1CC
B (r, g, b) (72, 209, 204)
HSV (h, s, v) (175°, 55%, 50%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color medium turquoise.

[edit] Dark Turquoise

Dark Turquoise
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #00CED1
B (r, g, b) (0, 206, 209)
HSV (h, s, v) (175°, 40%, 94%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color dark turquoise.

[edit] Turquoise in human culture

Astrology
Color mixing
  • Turquoise is sometimes described as a mixture of pale blue and green.
Geography
  • In slang form, the phrase "The Turquoise" refers to the waters of the Caribbean, which are shallow and therefore take on the color in sunlight.
Medicine
  • In holistic medicine, the color turquoise purportedly has a calming effect on patients, and is particularly used to treat patients prone to panic attacks or mania. To a lesser degree, mainstream psychiatric hospitals also use turquoise and other light shades of blue and green to calm patients by painting the walls in these colors.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 206; Color Sample of Turquoise [green]: Page 73 Plate 25 Color Sample I5

[edit] See also

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Shades of cyan
Alice blue Aqua Aquamarine Baby blue Bondi blue Cerulean Cyan Electric blue Pine green Robin egg blue
                   
Teal Turquoise Viridian
     
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