The color lime is a color that is a combination of 75% yellow and 25% 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.
Lime
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| Hex triplet | #BFFF00 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (191, 255, 0) |
| (h, s, v) | (75°, 100%, 100%) | |
| Source | HTML Color Chart @75 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color lime.
The first recorded use of lime as a color name in English was in 1905. [1]
Web color "lime"(aka green)
| Lime (HTML/CSS); Green (X11) | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00FF00 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 0) |
| (h, s, v) | (120°, 100%, 100%) | |
| Source | HTML/CSS[2] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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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.
Lime green
| Lime Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #32CD32 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (50, 205, 50) |
| (h, s, v) | (120°, 70%, 65%) | |
| Source | X11[2] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the color lime green (This is the web color called lime green.).
This is commonly the color of the outer skin of a lime.
Electric lime
| Electric Lime | ||
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| Hex triplet | #CCFF00 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (204, 255, 0) |
| (h, s, v) | (75°, 99%, 100%) | |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color electric lime.
This Crayola color was created in 1990.
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].
- Fluorescent shades of lime (ranging to chartreuse yellow) are common in high-visibility clothing.
- In grocery marketing, many new products with lime flavoring have appeared since the early 1990s, which often appear in lime colored packaging (for example, since 2002, lime-flavored Best Foods mayonnaise has been made available).
- Limey, a national epithet for the English coming from the historical British naval practice of supplying its sailors with lime juice to prevent scurvy.
- Lime is the name of a popular 1980s dance music group.
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a lime colored bandana means one is into the fetish of sitophilia. [4]
- The word limelight has nothing to do with either the fruit or the color lime; it refers to a method of heating calcium oxide (lime) to produce light.
References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample: Page 63 Plate 20 Color Sample J1--Lime (This color is shown 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.
- ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114
See also
| Web colors | black | gray | silver | white | red | maroon | purple | fuchsia | green | lime | olive | yellow | orange | blue | navy | teal | aqua |
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