Blue-green

Blue-green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#0D98BA
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(13, 152, 186)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(93, 18, 0, 27)
HSV (h, s, v)	(192°, 93%, 72^[1]%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

A traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel

Blue-green is a color that is a representation of the color that is between blue and green on a typical traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel.

Blue-green belongs to the cyan family of colors.

The source of this color is the List of Crayola crayon colors. Blue-green has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.

Variations

Cyan (aqua)

A modern RGB color wheel

Cyan (Aqua)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FFFF
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 255, 255)
HSV (h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 100^[2]%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cyan, also called aqua, is the blue-green color that is between blue and green on a modern RGB color wheel.

The modern RGB color wheel replaced the traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel because it is possible to display much brighter and more saturated colors using the primary and secondary colors of the RGB color wheel. In the terminology of color theory, RGB color space has a much larger color gamut than RYB color space.

The first recorded use of cyan as a color name in English was in 1879.^[3]

Turquoise

A sample of turquoise

Turquoise

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#40E0D0
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(64, 224, 208)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(71, 0, 7, 12)
HSV (h, s, v)	(174°, 71%, 88^[4]%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color turquoise, a representation of the color of the semi-precious stone turquoise.

The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573.^[5]

The color "turquoise" is a light tone of blue-green.

Ming

Ming

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#36747D
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(54, 116, 125)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(57, 7, 0, 51)
HSV (h, s, v)	(188°, 56%, 49%)
Source	Xona.com Color List
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color Ming

This color was formulated in 2001 as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

Pacific blue

Pacific Blue

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#1CA9C9
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(28, 169, 201)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(86, 16, 0, 21)
HSV (h, s, v)	(191°, 86%, 79^[6]%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color Pacific blue.

Pacific blue was formulated as a Crayola color in 1993.

The color is a representation of the waters of the Pacific.

Bondi blue

An original 1998 Bondi blue Macintosh IMac G3

Bondi blue is a color belonging to the cyan family of blues. It is very similar to the Crayola crayon color blue-green.

Apple christened the color of the exterior of its original iMac G3 personal computer "Bondi blue" when it was introduced in 1998. The color is said to be named for the color of the water at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

Green-blue

Green-Blue

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#1164B4
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(17, 100, 180)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(91, 44, 0, 29)
HSV (h, s, v)	(209°, 90.6%, 70.6^[7]%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Green-blue had been a Crayola color since 1958. It was continued as a Crayola crayon color until 1990.

Cerulean

Cerulean is a medium blue-green color that is used to represent or symbolize either the sky or the ocean.

The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590.^[8]

Teal

Teal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#008080
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 128, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 50^[9]%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Teal is a medium blue-green color. It is named after the common teal, a member of the duck family, whose eyes are surrounded by the color.

The color teal has a hue that is exactly halfway between blue and green and a value (brightness) that is exactly halfway between white and black.

The first recorded use of teal as a color name in English was in 1917.^[10]

In nature

A lake colored blue-green by glacial flour

Bacteria

Blue-green algae are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis.

Fish

The blue green damselfish is a species of damselfish.

Lakes

Glacial flour, powdered rock, can turn a lake to a blue-green color.

In human culture

Engineering

Blue-Green Engineering is a company that specializes in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The company's head office is located in Sydney Australia.^[11]

Linguistics

In some languages, blue and green are considered a single color.

Politics

In United States politics, the BlueGreen Alliance and its subsidiary the Apollo Alliance is a political movement in which organized labor (blue-collar workers) and environmentalists (greens) are allied with each other to create green jobs by promoting activities such as alternative energy. (See Blue-green alliance#United States)^[12]

Religion

In the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe, she is often depicted as wearing a blue-green colored robe. The color is significant to the Mexicas because in the Aztec religion. Also, Blue-green is known as Maya blue in pre-Columbian cultures. In the Nahuatl culture blue represents the center of fire and tonalli. Also sometimes the blue color is diluted so it appears as a turquoise on manuscripts. The color is often used for the representation of Aztec rulers and European kings.^[13]

References

↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #0D98BA (Blue-Green):
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #00FFFF (Cyan (Aqua)):
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 194
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color 40E0D0 (Turquoise):
↑ 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
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #1CA9C9 (Pacific Blue):
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #1164B4 (Green-Blue):
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Cerulean: Page 89 Plate 33 Color Sample E6
↑ Web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #008080 (Teal):
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; color sample of Teal: Page 101 Plate 39 Color Sample L7
↑ Blue Green Engineering Blue-Green Engineering:
↑ bluegreenalliance.org Bluegreen alliance:
↑ Magaloni, Diana (2014). The Colors of the New World: Artists, Materials, and the Creation of the Florentine Codex. Los Angeles: The Getty Research Institute. p. 43. ISBN 978-1606063293.

Shades of cyan

Alice blue	Aqua	Aquamarine	Azure mist	Celeste	Cerulean	Cyan	Electric blue	Jungle green	Magic mint

Mint	Persian green	Pine green	Robin egg blue	Sea green	Skobeloff	Sky blue	Tiffany Blue	Teal	Turquoise

Verdigris

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

Shades of blue

Air Force blue	Air superiority blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Bleu de France	Blue	Blue-gray	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue

Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue	Celeste	Cerulean	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue

Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue	Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal blue	Glaucous	Electric indigo	Indigo

International Klein Blue	Iris	Light blue	Majorelle Blue	Marian blue	Maya blue	Medium blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue

Oxford Blue	Palatinate blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Phthalo blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue

Steel blue	Teal	Tiffany Blue	True Blue	Tufts Blue	Turquoise	UCLA Blue	Ultramarine	Violet-blue	Viridian

Yale Blue	YInMn Blue	Zaffre

Related topics:Ao - St. Patrick's blue - Template:Shades of cyan

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