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 a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color halfway between the web color Chartreuse and Yellow on the color wheel.

Contents 1 Electric Lime 2 Lime 3 Web color "Lime" (Pure Green) 4 Lime Green 5 Shades of Lime Color Comparison Chart 6 Lime in human culture 7 References 8 See also

[edit] Electric 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.

[edit] Lime

Lime
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#BFFF00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(191, 255, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(75°, 100%, 100%)
Source		[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color lime.

The first recorded use of lime as a color name in English was in 1905. ^[1]

[edit] Web color "Lime" (Pure Green)

Lime (HTML/CSS); Green (X11)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#00FF00
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 255, 0)
Source		HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(120°, 70%, 65%)
Source		X11[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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] Shades of Lime Color Comparison Chart

• Electric Lime (Crayola) (Hex: #CCFF00) (RGB: 204, 255, 0)
• LIME (Hex: #BFFF00) (RGB: 191, 255, 0)
• Green (web color "Lime") (Lime Jell-O) (Hex: #00FF00) (RGB: 0, 255, 0)
• Lime Green (web color) (Hex: #32CD32) (RGB: 50, 205, 50)

[edit] Lime in human culture

American Cuisine

• Lime Jell-O is the official state food of Utah^[3] and Utah is a state in the Jello Belt.

Marketing

• In grocery marketing, many new products with lime flavoring have appeared since the early 1990s, which often appear in lime colored packaging.

Music

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

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.

[edit] References

1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample: Page 63 Plate 20 Color Sample J1--Lime
2. ^ ^{a b} W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
3. ^ Kay, Katty. "Utah loves Jell-O - official", BBC News, 2001-02-06. Retrieved on February 19, 2007.

[edit] See also

• Chartreuse Yellow
• List of colors

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

					Shades of green
Asparagus	Bright green	Camouflage green	Celadon	Chartreuse	Emerald	Fern green	Gray-asparagus	Green	Green-yellow	Jade	Jungle green
Lime	Moss green	Myrtle	Olive	Olive drab	Pear	Pine green	Sea green	Spring green	Swamp 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

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