Teal (color)
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Teal (#008080)
Teal is a medium blue-green color, although it is more blue than green. It is named after the common teal, a member of the duck family, whose eyes are surrounded by the color. The complementary color of teal is coral pink.
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[edit] Teal
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| Hex triplet | #008080 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 128, 128) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (180°, 100%, 50[1]%) |
| Source | HTML/CSS[2] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The color teal is displayed at right. It comes from a mixture of the primary color, blue, and the secondary color green.
Teal is one of the initial group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987, shown below.
The first recorded use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.[3]
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[edit] Teal blue
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| Hex triplet | #367588 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (54, 117, 136) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (194°, 60%, 53[4]%) |
| Source | Plochere | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Teal blue is displayed at right. It is a medium shade of teal with more blue.
The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927.[5]
The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. [6]
[edit] Teal in human culture
- In Windows 95 teal is the default background color.
- In an online vote, Teal was voted the most popular shade of blue just ahead of cornflower blue.
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a teal bandana means that one's sexual fetish is cock and ball torture. [8] [9]
- The San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League use teal as their main color. Their American Hockey League farm team Worcester Sharks also play in teal.
- The Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League use teal as their primary color. The Miami Dolphins use a teal-like color called "aqua green".
- The Detroit Pistons used teal as one of their primary colors from 1996 to 2001.
- The New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association use teal as their primary color.
- The Port Adelaide Power's main color is teal. It is the only team in the Australian Football League to use teal.
- Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners use teal as a secondary color, calling it "northwest green." The Florida Marlins are nicknamed "The Boys in Teal."
- The Nintendo Game Boy is a small handheld video game system which is available in a pale tint of teal.
- Teal is a choice of team color in many video games.
[edit] See also
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Look up Teal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
[edit] References
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #008080 (Teal):
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ 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
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #367588 (Teal Blue):
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; color sample of Teal Blue: Page 101 Plate 39 Color Sample L6
- ^ Plochere Color System:
- ^ Teal Group:
- ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114
- ^ Gay City USA Hanky Code
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