Aqua (color)

Not to be confused with Aquamarine (color).
Aqua

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #00FFFF
sRGBB (r, g, b) (0, 255, 255)
Source HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Aqua is a tone of the color cyan (from Greek: κύανoς (transliterated: kýanos), meaning "blue") which is identical to the color electric cyan, one of the three secondary colors (subtractive primary colors) of the HSV color wheel, along with magenta and yellow. It is precisely halfway between green and blue on the color wheel. It should not be confused with the color process cyan used in printing, which is a deeper tone of cyan; this color is also known as deep aqua.

In traditional print media, "aqua" is short for aquamarine, a distinct color from aqua. The words "aqua" and "cyan" are used interchangeably in computer graphics, and especially web design, to refer to the subtractive primary color "electric cyan". Traditionally that color, defined as #00FFFF in hex, or (0,255,255) in RGB, is called "cyan", but X11 color names introduced the alternative name "aqua". Later, W3C popularized the name by using it in the named color palette of HTML 3.2 specifications.

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Pale aqua

Pale Aqua

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #BCD4E6
RGBB (r, g, b) (188, 212, 230)
HSV (h, s, v) (206°, 18%, 90[2]%)
Source ISCC NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color pale aqua.

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Pale Aqua (color sample #184).

Aqua in human culture

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See also

References

  1. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
  2. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #BCD4E6 (Pale Aqua):
Web colors
black gray silver white maroon red purple fuchsia green lime olive yellow navy blue teal aqua
                               
Shades of cyan
Alice blue Aqua Aquamarine Celeste Cerulean Cyan Electric blue Jungle green Magic mint Mint
                   
Persian green Pine green Robin egg blue Sea green Skobeloff Tiffany Blue Teal Turquoise
               
The samples shown above are only indicative.