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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.

Contents 1 Web color "lime" (bright green) 2 Lime green 3 Electric lime 4 Lime in human culture 5 References 6 See also

Lime (HTML/CSS); Green (X11)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#00FF00
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 255, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(120°, 100%, 100%)
Source		HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#32CD32
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(50, 205, 50)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(120°, 70%, 65%)
Source		X11[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CCFF00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(204, 255, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(75°, 99%, 100%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color electric lime.

This Crayola color was created in 1990.

American Cuisine

• Lime Jell-O is the official state food of Utah^[2] and Utah is a state in the Jell-O Belt.

Automobiles

• 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].

High-visibility clothing

• Fluorescent shades of lime (ranging to chartreuse yellow) are common in high-visibility clothing.

Marketing

• 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).

Military

• Limey, a national epithet for the English coming from the historical British naval practice of supplying its sailors with lime juice to prevent scurvy.

Music

• Lime is the name of a popular 1980s dance music group.

Sexuality

• In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a lime colored bandana means one is into the fetish of sitophilia. ^[3]

Theatre

• 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.

1. ^ ^{a b} W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
2. ^ Kay, Katty. "Utah loves Jell-O - official", BBC News, 2001-02-06. Retrieved on 2007-02-19. 
3. ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114

• Chartreuse Yellow
• List of colors

Web colors	black	gray	silver	white	red	maroon	purple	fuchsia	green	lime	olive	yellow	gold	orange	blue	navy	teal	aqua

					Shades of green
Asparagus	Bright green	Camouflage green	Celadon	Chartreuse	Emerald	Fern green	Gray-asparagus	Green	Green (X11)	Jade	Jungle green
Lime	Moss green	Myrtle	Olive	Olive drab	Pear	Pine green	Sea green	Spring green	Tea green	Forest green	Chartreuse yellow
Harlequin	Office green	Lime pulp	Hunter green	Kelly green	Shamrock green	Islamic green	Lime green	Persian green	British racing green	Spring bud	Army green
Green-yellow	Pigment green

						Shades of yellow
Amber	Apricot	Beige	Buff	Chartreuse yellow	Corn	Cream	Dark Goldenrod	Ecru	Flax	Gamboge	Golden	Goldenrod	Golden poppy	Golden yellow
Green-yellow	Khaki	Lemon	Lemon Chiffon	Lime	Metallic Gold	Mustard	Navajo white	Old Gold	Olive	Papaya whip	Peach-yellow	Pear	Saffron	School bus yellow
Selective yellow	Tangerine yellow	Yellow