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Turquoise (color)
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| Turquoise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #40E0D0 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (64, 224, 208) |
| Source | X11 | |
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Turquoise is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. The color is based on the gem turquoise. The term comes from the French for Turkish.
The first recorded use of Turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. [1]
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| Pale Turquoise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #AFEEEE | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (175, 238, 238) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (175°, 84%, 94%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the web color pale turquoise.
| Medium Turquoise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #48D1CC | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (72, 209, 204) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (175°, 55%, 50%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the web color medium turquoise.
| Dark Turquoise | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00CED1 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 206, 209) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (175°, 40%, 94%) |
| Source | X11 | |
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At right is displayed the web color dark turquoise.
- Astrology
- The gemstone turquoise represents the sign Sagittarius.
- Color mixing
- Geography
- In slang form, the phrase "The Turquoise" refers to the waters of the Caribbean, which are shallow and therefore take on the color in sunlight.
- Medicine
- In holistic medicine, the color turquoise purportedly has a calming effect on patients, and is particularly used to treat patients prone to panic attacks or mania. To a lesser degree, mainstream psychiatric hospitals also use turquoise and other light shades of blue and green to calm patients by painting the walls in these colors.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 206; Color Sample of Turquoise [green]: Page 73 Plate 25 Color Sample I5
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| Alice blue | Aqua | Aquamarine | Baby blue | Bondi blue | Cerulean | Cyan (process) | Electric blue | Pine green | Robin egg blue | Teal | Turquoise | Viridian | |
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