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Teal (color)
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| Hex triplet | #008080 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 128, 128) |
| Source | HTML/CSS[1] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Teal, also called teal blue, is a medium to dark greenish blue color of low saturation; a dark cyan. Although the color is said to get its name from the fact that it surrounds the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family, today's color scientists doubt that theory[citation needed]. [2]The complementary color of teal is coral pink.
Teal is one of the initial group of 17 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987, shown below.
The first recorded use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.[3]
| Medium Teal Blue | ||
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| Hex triplet | #0054B4 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 84, 180) |
| Source | unknown | |
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Medium Teal Blue is a medium shade of teal with more blue.
- In Windows 95, Windows 98 etc., teal is the standard background color.
- In an online vote, Teal was voted the most popular shade of blue just ahead of cornflower blue.
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a teal bandana means that one's sexual fetish is cock and ball torture. [4]
- The San Jose Sharks' main color is teal. They are the only team in the NHL which use teal in their team colors.
- The Port Adelaide Power's main color is teal. It is the only team in the AFL to use teal.
- The Nintendo Game Boy is a small handheld video game system which is available in a pale tint of teal.
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ Harper, Douglas (2001). Teal. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved on 2007-03-24.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; color sample of Teal: Page 101 Plate 39 Color Sample L7
- ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114
Look up Teal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
| Web colors | black | gray | silver | white | red | maroon | purple | fuchsia | green | lime | olive | yellow | orange | blue | navy | teal | aqua |
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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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