Aquamarine (color)

Not to be confused with Aqua (color).

Aquamarine is a color that is a light tint of teal, in between cyan and green on the color wheel. It is named after the mineral aquamarine, a gemstone mainly found in granite rocks. The first recorded use of aquamarine as a color name in English was in 1598.^[2]

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  Rough aquamarine
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  Aquamarine crystals on muscovite
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  An aquamarine brooch

  

  Carl Schmitz-Pleis (1877 - 1943): Lady in Aquamarine, 1911.

Aquamarine
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#7FFFD4
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(127, 255, 212)
HSV (h, s, v)	(160°, 50%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(92, 60, 158°)
Source	X11[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Brilliant green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Aquamarine (RGB)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FFC0
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(0, 255, 192)
HSV (h, s, v)	(165°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(90, 83, 155°)
Source	[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Medium aquamarine
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#66CDAA
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(102, 205, 170)
HSV (h, s, v)	(160°, 50%, 80%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(76, 49, 158°)
Source	X11[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Brilliant green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

See also

• List of colors