Lime (color)
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The color lime is a color that is a combination 75% yellow and 25% green, so named because it is the color of limes. It is the color halfway between the web color Chartreuse and Yellow on the color wheel.
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[edit] Lime
| Lime | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #BFFF00 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (191, 255, 0) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (21, 0, 99, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (75°, 100%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color lime.
The first recorded use of lime as a color name in English was in 1905. <ref> Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample: Page 63 Plate 20 Color Sample J1--Lime </ref>
This color is the color of liquid or powdered lemon-lime Gatorade, the most popular sports drink.
[edit] Web color "Lime" (=Pure Green)
| Green (original X11 color) ("lime" in HTML/CSS) | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #00FF00 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 0) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (255, 0, 255, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 100%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
The official web color named lime actually corresponds to pure green on an RGB display: it has a different HTML color code (#00FF00). A sample can be seen to the right.
This color is the color of lime Jell-O.
[edit] Lime Green
| Lime Green | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #32CD32 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (50, 205, 50) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (80, 0, 80, 10) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 70%, 65%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
Displayed at right is the color lime green (This is the web color called lime green.).
This is the color of the outer skin of a lime.
[edit] Lime Pulp
| Lime Pulp | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #D1E189 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (209, 225, 137) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (90, 0, 90, 10) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 40%, 98%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | ||
At right is displayed the color lime pulp. This is the actual color of the interior pulp of a lime, and thus also of fresh or frozen limeade.
The source of this color: it was sampled directly from the illustration of fresh lime slices in the Wikipedia article on limes.
[edit] Three Different Web Colors Are Called Lime
The three different web colors called "lime" each represent a different aspect of the citrus fruit called lime:
The color described here as lime (#CCFF00) is the color of the interior of a lime; the official web color lime (#00FF00) is pure green, the color of lime Jell-O; and the web color LimeGreen (#32CD32) is the color of the outside skin of a lime.
[edit] Lime in Human Culture
- Lime Jell-O is the official state food of Utah, a state in the Jello Belt (actually, lime Jell-O is a not the color described here as lime but the pure green color shown above [web color #00FF00]).
- The flavor Lime is very popular among Hispanics, and in grocery marketing, many new products with lime flavoring have appeared since the early 1990s, which often appear in lime colored packaging.
- Lime flavored Gatorade, which comes in lime colored packaging, is the most popular sports drink.
- Lime is the name of a popular 1980s dance music group.
- The word limelight has nothing to do with either the fruit or the colour lime; it refers to a method of heating Calcium oxide (lime) to produce light.
[edit] References
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[edit] See also
| Web colors | black | silver | gray | white | red | maroon | purple | fuchsia | green | lime | olive | yellow | orange | blue | navy | teal | aqua |
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