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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.
Cyan (/ ˈsaɪ.ən, - æn /) [1][2][3] is the color between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light. [4][5] It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength between 500 and 520 nm, between the wavelengths of green and blue. [6] In the subtractive color system, or CMYK color model, which can be overlaid to produce all colors in paint and color printing, cyan is one of the primary ...
In color printing, the shade of cyan called process cyan or pigment cyan is one of the three primary pigment colors which, along with yellow and magenta, constitute the three subtractive primary colors of pigment. (The secondary colors of pigment are blue, green and red.) As such, the CMYK printing process was invented in the 1890s, when ...
In addition to releasing its inaugural Color of the Year, Behr has also introduced a 2018 Color Trends palette. ... a restorative blue-green hue honoring nature to create a soothing atmosphere."
In color theory, hue is one of the main properties (called color appearance parameters) of a color, defined technically in the CIECAM02 model as "the degree to which a stimulus can be described as similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet," [1] within certain theories of color vision ...
Green: Grounded. Since green is a color that’s directly derived from nature, it’s often thought of by color psychologists to be grounding. ... Blue has a way of making people feel mellow, and ...
Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium (III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed of a majority of green, followed by blue. The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s. [2] Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green". [3] The pigment was first prepared in mid-19th-century Paris and remains ...
Last year's Color of the Year featured "In the Moment," a soothing, restorative blue-green hue. And like last year's shade, Behr seeks to inspire a sense of "bliss" with Blueprint.