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

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