Teal
Low-saturated color, a blueish-green to dark medium, similar to medium blue-green and dark cyan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Teal is a greenish-blue color. Its name comes from that of a bird—the Eurasian teal (Anas crecca)—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general.
Teal | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #008080 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 128, 128) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (180°, 100%, 50%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (48, 38, 192°) |
Source | HTML/CSS[1] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate bluish green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
green |
teal |
blue |
It can be created by mixing cyan into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or gray.[2] It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors. In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half.
In North America, teal was a fad color during the 1990s, with, among others, many sports teams adopting the color for their uniforms.[3][4]