page_title: Shades of cyan
section_title: Viridian
hierarchical_section_title: Shades of cyan / Additional variations of cyan / Viridian
caption_attribution_description: English: A Verditer Flycatcher Shows off its vibrant beauty.
context_page_description: The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades. It is one of the subtractive primary colors- cyan, magenta, and yellow.
  The first recorded use of cyan blue as a color name was in 1879.
context_section_description: Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value.  It is composed more of green than blue.  Specifically, it is a dark shade of spring green, the color between green and cyan on the color wheel, or, in paint, a tertiary blue–green color.  Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green".
  The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s (exact year uncertain).
caption: Viridian flycatcher
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