Aquamarine (color)

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Short description: Blue-green color
Aquamarine
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#7FFFD4
SourceX11[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant green
Aquamarine (RGB)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#80FFC0
Source[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid green
Medium aquamarine
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#66CDAA
SourceX11[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant green

Aquamarine is a color that is a light tint of teal, in between cyan and green on the color wheel. It is named after the mineral aquamarine, a gemstone mainly found in granite rocks. The first recorded use of aquamarine as a color name in English was in 1598.[2]

See also

  • List of colors

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, SVG color keywords. W3C. (May 2003). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  2. ↑ Maerz, Aloys John, and Morris Rea Paul (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 190; color sample of aquamarine: p. 93, plate 35, color sample I3. OCLC 937598580.




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