Lime (color)
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| Hex triplet | #BFFF00 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (191, 255, 0) |
| Source | Maerz & Paul [1] | |
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Lime green is a color between yellow and green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. [1] Lime green is a color that is 75% yellow and 25% green.
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[edit] Lime green
At right is displayed the traditional color lime green. This color is usually called simply lime (since this is the color normally regarded as lime long before web colors were invented)[citation needed] in order to distinguish it from the web color lime (X11 Green) and web color lime green, shown below.
The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1905. [1]
[edit] Web color "lime" (X11 Green)
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| Hex triplet | #00FF00 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 0) |
| Source | HTML/CSS[2] | |
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The web color named lime actually corresponds to the green primary of an RGB display: it has a different HTML color code (#00FF00). A sample can be seen to the right.
See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11.
This color is the color of lime Jell-O.
[edit] Web color lime green
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| Hex triplet | #32CD32 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (50, 205, 50) |
| Source | X11[2] | |
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Displayed at right is the web color called lime green.
[edit] Electric lime
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| Hex triplet | #CCFF00 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (204, 255, 0) |
| Source | Crayola | |
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At right is displayed the color electric lime.
This Crayola color was created in 1990.
This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.
[edit] Lime in human culture
- Lime Jell-O is the official state food of Utah[3] and Utah is a state in the Jell-O Belt.
- Chrysler Corporation automobiles were available painted a bright yellow-green called "Sublime" on Dodges and "Limelight" on Plymouths in the early 1970s[1], [2]; there were additional lime-related color names on Chrysler-built cars of the era such as "Lime poly", a metallic yellow-green. Jeeps were available in the mid-2000s painted "Electric Lime", a bright metallic centric green [3].
- Limey, a national epithet for the English coming from the Royal Navy practice of supplying its sailors with lime juice to prevent scurvy.
- Lime is the name of a popular 1980s dance music group.
- National Rugby League team, the Canberra Raiders' main color is lime green
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; The index refers to Plate 20 Color Sample J1 for Lime Green, though Plate 20 has no such label; this color is shown on Plate 20 as being halfway between yellow-green (the old name for the color that is now called chartreuse) and yellow on the color wheel.
- ^ a b W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ Kay, Katty. "Utah loves Jell-O - official", BBC News, 2001-02-06. Retrieved on 2007-02-19.
[edit] See also
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