24 Color names for "Shades Of Cyan"

Cyan is the color between green and blue on the visible spectrum of light. It is evoked by light with a predominant wavelength between 490 and 520 nm, between the wavelengths of green and blue. Colors in the cyan color range are teal, turquoise, electric blue, aquamarine, and others described as blue-green. In X11 colors, this color is called both cyan and aqua. Aqua as color name is in use since 1598 and commonly associated with water, such as the appearance of the water at a tropical beach.

Cyan is also one of the common inks used in four-color printing, along with magenta, yellow, and black; this set of colors is referred to as CMYK. In printing, the cyan ink is sometimes known as printer's cyan, process cyan, or process blue. While both the additive secondary and the subtractive primary are called cyan, they can be substantially different from one another. Cyan printing ink is typically more saturated than the RGB secondary cyan, depending on what RGB color space and ink are considered.

The web color light cyan is a very pale green shade of cyan.

Dark cyan is the web color mentioned on Wikipedia as shade of cyan. It can be described as strong bluish green

Zomp is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color was formulated in 2007.

The moonstone color was formulated by Crayola in 1994 as part of their Gem Tones range of crayons. It is a slightly dark shade of cyan that is reminiscent of the bluish-green glow of some moonstones.

Electric blue is a color whose definition varies but is often considered close to cyan, and which is a representation of the color of lightning, an electric spark, and the color of ionized argon gas; it was originally named after the ionized air glow produced during electrical discharges, though its meaning has broadened to include shades of blue that are metaphorically "electric" by virtue of being "intense" or particularly "vibrant". The first recorded use of electric blue as a color name in English was in 1845. The color electric blue was in vogue in the 1890s.

Verdigris is the common name for blue-green, poisonous, copper-based pigments that form a patina on copper, bronze, and brass.

The color name keppel has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.

In the X11 color system which became a standard for early web colors, azure is depicted as a pale cyan or whitish cyan rather than a shade of azure. In an artistic context, this color could also be called azure mist or cyan mist.

Myrtle green, also called myrtle, is a color which is a representation of the color of the leaves of the myrtle plant. The first recorded use of myrtle green as a color name in English was in 1835.

Blue-green has been a Crayola color since 1930.

Midnight green (sometimes also called Eagle green) is a dark cyan. It (or more specifically #004C54) has been the primary team color for the National Football League (NFL)'s Philadelphia Eagles since 1996.

Caribbean Current is a rich, tropical shade of teal.

The color peacock blue is a deep greenish blue, from the iridescent color of a peacock.As a color between blue and cyan, peacock blue has been used as the process-blue ink in four-color printing. Kelly Moore Paint's "color of the year" for 2019 was their peacock blue.

The first recorded use of Skobeloff green as a color name in English was in 1912.

The web color light sea green is a medium shade of teal with a balanced mix of blue and green.

The color Charleston green originated after the American Civil War, when the North provided black paint to the South for use in its reconstruction. Charlestonians, i.e., the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina, mixed the black with a little bit of yellow and blue and created Charleston green. Since this color has a hue code of 180, it is actually an extremely dark shade of cyan.

Robin egg blue, also called eggshell blue, is a shade of cyan (bluish-green color), approximating the shade of the eggs laid by the American robin. The first recorded use of robin egg blue as a color name in English was in 1873.

The color Celeste is a sky bluish turquoise.

Teal is a greenish-blue color. Its name comes from that of a bird—the Eurasian teal (Anas crecca)—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or gray. The complementary color of teal is pink. It is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987. In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half.

Tiffany Blue is the colloquial name for the light medium robin egg blue color associated with Tiffany & Co., the New York City jewelry company created by Charles Tiffany and John Young in 1837. The color was used on the cover of Tiffany's Blue Book, first published in 1845.Since then, Tiffany & Co. has used the color extensively on promotional materials like boxes and bags. Since 1998, the Tiffany Blue color has been registered as a color trademark by Tiffany & Co. It is produced as a private custom color by Pantone, with PMS number 1837, the number deriving from the year of Tiffany's foundation.

Medium sky blue, also known as sky blue in Crayola crayons, was introduced by Crayola in 1958. This color can be found in the 32, 48, 64, 96, and 120 packs of crayons.

Turquoise is a blue-green 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 . The first recorded use of turquoise as a color name in English was in 1573. The X11 color named turquoise is displayed in the color box.