Blue-green

**Blue-green** is a color that is a deep tone of cyan.

On the older red-yellow-blue pigment color wheel (in which red, yellow and blue were called the primary colors and orange, green, and violet were called the secondary colors), _blue-green_ was a third  color between blue and green.  The other third colors on a red-yellow-blue (RYB) color wheel were called red-violet, blue-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange and red-orange.

## Meaning of blue-green

- Blue-green, like the color cyan, represents cool calmness and peace because it can be the color of water.

## Tones of blue-green color comparison chart

|style = "background-color: #33ffcc;"|Raindrop (Crayola Ultra colored pencils) (Hex: #33FFCC) (RGB: 51, 255, 204)|
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|style = "background-color: #96ded1;"|Pale Robin Egg Blue (Robin Egg Blue (ISCC-NBS #162)) (Hex: #96DED1) (RGB: 150, 222, 209)|
|style = "background-color: #81d8d0;"|Tiffany Blue (Tiffany) (Hex: #81D8D0) (RGB: 129, 216, 208)|
|style = "background-color: #08e8de;"|Bright Turquoise (PerBang.dk) (Hex: #08E8DE) (RGB: 8, 232, 222)|
|style="background-color: #00dddd;"|Pale Blue-Green (Blue Green) (www.99colors.net) (Hex: #00DDDD) (RGB: 0, 221, 221)|
|style = "background-color: #30d5c8;"|Turquoise (web color) (Hex: #30D5C8) (RGB: 48, 213, 200)|
|style="background-color: #00bfff;"|Capri (web color: Deep Sky Blue) (Hex: #00BFFF) (RGB: 0, 191, 255)|
|style = "background-color: #00b7eb;"|Process Cyan (Pigment Cyan) (Printer's Cyan) (Deep Aqua) (Hex: #00B7EB) (RGB: 0, 180, 247)|
|style = "background-color: #00b6d9;"|Blue Atoll (Pantone TPX 16-4535) (Hex: #00B6D9) (RGB: 0, 182, 217)|
|style="background-color: #02a4d3;"|Bright Cerulean (Crayola: Cerulean) (Hex: #02A4D3) (RGB: 2, 164, 211)|
|style = "background-color: #1ca9c9;"|Pacific Blue (Crayola) (Hex: #1CA9C9) (RGB: 28, 169, 201)|
|style="background-color: #00b2ca;"|Scuba Blue (Pantone TPX 16-4725) (Hex: #00B2CA) (RGB: 0, 178, 202)|
|style = "background-color: #00ced1;"|Deep Turquoise (web color "Dark Turquoise") (Hex: #00CED1) (RGB: 0, 206, 209)|
|style = "background-color: #00cccc;"|Robin Egg Blue (Crayola) (Hex: #00CCCC) (RGB: 0, 204, 204)|
|style="background-color: #18a7b5;"|Light Teal Blue (Crayola: Teal Blue) (Hex: #18A7B5) (RGB: 24, 167, 181)|
|style = "background-color: #86aba5; color:#ffffff"|Water (Traditional Japanese colors) (Hex: #96ABA5) (RGB: 134, 171, 165)|
|style = "background-color: #008B8B; color:#ffffff"|Dark Cyan (web color) (Hex: #008B8B) (RGB: 0, 139, 139)|
|style = "background-color: #4ea4ba; color:#ffffff"|Maui Blue (Pantone TPx 16-4525) (Hex: #4EA4BA) (RGB: 78, 164, 186)|
|style = "background-color: #0095b6; color:#ffffff"|BLUE-GREEN (Crayola) (Hex: #0D98BA) (RGB: 13, 152, 186)|
|style = "background-color: #0095b6; color:#ffffff"|Bondi Blue (www.99colors.net) (Hex: #0095B6) (RGB: 0, 149, 182)|
|style = "background-color: #006db0; color:#ffffff"|Honolulu Blue (Detroit Lions) (Hex: #006DB0) (RGB: 0, 109, 176)|
|style = "background-color: #007ba7; color:#ffffff"|Cerulean (www.99colors.net) (Hex: #007BA7) (RGB: 0, 123, 167)|
|style = "background-color: #367588; color:#ffffff"|Teal Blue (www.99colors.net) (Hex: #367588) (RGB: 54, 117, 136)|
|style = "background-color: #219EBD; color:#FFFFFF"|Green-blue (Hex: #219EBD) (RGB: 33, 158, 189)|
|style = "background-color: #256d7b; color:#ffffff"|Water Blue (RAL 5021) (Hex: #256D7B) (RGB: 37, 109, 123)|
|style = "background-color: #008080; color:#ffffff"|Teal (web color) (Hex: #008080) (RGB: 0, 128, 128)|
|style="background-color: #3a6960; color:#ffffff"|Japanese Blue-Green (Blue-Green (Japanese traditional colors)) (Hex: #3A6960) (RGB: 58, 105, 96)|

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