A traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel

Blue-Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#0D98BA
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(13, 152, 186)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(192°, 93%, 72[1]%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Blue-green is a color that is a representation of the color that is between blue and green on a typical traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel.

Blue-green is belongs to the cyan family of colors.

The source of this color is the List of Crayola crayon colors. Blue-green has been a Crayola crayon color since 1949.

Variations of blue-green[link]

Cyan (aqua)[link]

A modern RGB color wheel

Cyan (Aqua)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#00FFFF
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 255, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 100[2]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cyan, also called aqua, is the blue-green color that is between blue and green on a modern RGB color wheel.

The modern RGB color wheel replaced the traditional old-fashioned RYB color wheel because it is possible to display much brighter and more saturated colors using the primary and secondary colors of the RGB color wheel. In the terminology of color theory, RGB color space has a much larger color gamut than RYB color space.

The first recorded use of cyan as a color name in English was in 1879.^[3]

Turquoise[link]

A sample of turquoise

Turquoise
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#40E0D0
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(64, 224, 208)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(174°, 71%, 88[4]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color turquoise, a representation of the color of the semi-precious stone turquoise.

The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573.^[5]

The color "turquoise" is a light tone of blue-green.

Pacific blue[link]

Pacific Blue
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#1CA9C9
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(28, 169, 201)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(191°, 86%, 79[6]%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color Pacific blue.

Pacific blue was formulated as a Crayola color in 1993.

Bondi blue[link]

An original 1998 Bondi blue Macintosh IMac G3

Bondi blue is a color belonging to the cyan family of blues. It is very similar to the Crayola crayon color blue-green (shown above).

Apple christened the color of the exterior of its original iMac G3 personal computer "Bondi blue" when it was introduced in 1998. The color is said to be named for the color of the water at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

Cerulean[link]

Cerulean
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#007BA7
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 123, 167)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(196°, 100%, 65[7]%)
Source		[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cerulean is a medium blue-green color that is used to represent or symbolize either the sky or the ocean.

The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590.^[8]

Teal[link]

Teal
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#008080
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 128, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 50[9]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Teal is a medium blue-green color. It is named after the Common Teal, a member of the duck family, whose eyes are surrounded by the color.

The color teal has a hue that is exactly halfway between blue and green and a value (brightness) that is exactly halfway between white and black.

The first recorded use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.^[10]

Blue-green in nature[link]

Bacteria

• Blue-green algae are a phylum of bacteria that obtain their energy through photosynthesis.

Fish

• The blue green damselfish is a species of damselfish.

Blue-green in human culture[link]

Religion

• In the iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe, she is often depicted as wearing a blue-green colored robe. The color is significant to Mexican Indians and mestizos because in the Aztec religion, blue-green was the color reserved for the divine couple Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl.^[11]

See also[link]

• List of colors

References[link]