  teal is a low-saturated color, a bluish-to dark medium, similar to medium blue and dark cyan. it can be created by mixing green with blue into a white base, or deepened as needed with a little bit of black or gray color. the complementary color of teal is coral. it is also one of the initial group of 16 html/css web colors formulated in 1987. the first recorded use of teal as a color name in english was in 1917.maerz, aloys john and m. rea paul (1930) a dictionary of color, new york, mcgraw-hill, p. 205; color sample of teal: p. 101 plate 39 color sample l7 ==etymology== its name is derived from the middle english tele, a word akin to the dutch taling and the middle low german telink. as a color, its name is believed to have been taken from the small freshwater common teal, a member of the duck family whose eyes are surrounded by this color. ==variations of teal== ===teal blue===  teal blue is a medium tone of teal with more blue. the first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in english was in 1927.maerz, aloys john and m. rea paul (1930) a dictionary of color, new york, mcgraw-hill, p. 205; color sample of teal blue: p. 101 plate 39 color sample l6 the source of this color is the plochere color system, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. teal was subsequently a heavily used color in the 1950s and 1960s.kelly, kenneth l. and judd, deanne b. (december 1976) [http://web.archive.org/web/20081004182626/http://colors.bravo9.com/
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