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At right is displayed the X11 color named turquoise. Turquoise is the name of a greenish blue color, based on the gem of the same name. The word turquoise comes from the French for Turkish, as the gem was originally imported from Turkey. [23] [24] The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. [25]
Differences in value can also be referred to as tints and shades, with a tint being a cyan mixed with white, and a shade being mixed with black. Color nomenclature is subjective. Many shades of cyan with a bluish hue are called blue. Similarly, those with a greenish hue are referred to as green. A cyan with a dark shade is commonly known as teal.
Turquoise (/ ˈ t ɜːr k (w) ɔɪ z / TUR-k(w)oyz) is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.The word turquoise dates to the 17th century and is derived from the French turquois, meaning 'Turkish', because the mineral was first brought to Europe through Turkey from mines in the historical Khorasan province of Iran (Persia) and Afghanistan today.
Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.
TEAL is the acronym for Tasman Empire Airways Limited, the forerunner of Air New Zealand, who used teal as their airline's signature color; it appeared not just on plane livery but promotional material and airline bags. When New Zealanders refer to ‘teal green,’ they are more likely referring to the airline color than the bird's color.
Cyan 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.
Finnish makes a distinction between vihreä ' green ' and sininen ' blue '. Turquoise or teal (turkoosi or sinivihreä) is considered to be a separate, intermediate color between green and blue, and musta ' black ' is also differentiated from blue. The name for blue, sininen, is shared with other Finnic languages.
Robin egg blue, also called eggshell blue or robin's-egg blue, [1] is a shade of teal (a blue-green color), approximating the shade of the eggs laid by the American robin, an abundant songbird of North America. The egg pigment is biliverdin, a product of the breakdown of heme. [2]