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Lime (color)

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Hex triplet
  
#BFFF00

CMYK   (c, m, y, k)
  
(25, 0, 100, 0)

Source
  
Maerz & Paul

sRGB  (r, g, b)
  
(191, 255, 0)

HSV       (h, s, v)
  
(75°, 100%, 100%)

Lime (color)

Lime, also traditionally known as lime green, lime-green, or bitter lime, is a color that is a shade of green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel.

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Lime (traditional lime green)

The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890.

Lime (color hex code #BFFF00) is a pure spectral color at approximately 564 nanometers on the visible spectrum when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram.

Lemon Lime

Lemon-Lime is a fluorescent chartreuse color that is named after the carbonated soft drinks such as Sprite, 7 Up and Sierra Mist.

The red value to this neon color is almost to Yellow.

Arctic Lime

At right is displayed the color Arctic lime.

Close to Electric Lime, but created in 2009. This is one of the colors in Crayola's eXtreme colors ultra-bright colored pencils.

Volt

At right is displayed the color Volt.

The color Volt is used by Nike in several of their athletic products, most notably their Air Max 90 Hyperfuse sneakers, which were introduced in 2011. This color is similar to Electric Lime below.

Electric lime

At right is displayed the color Electric lime.

This Crayola color was created in 1990.

This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.

French lime

At right is displayed the color French lime, which is the shade of lime called "lime" in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

Web color "lime" (X11 Green)

The web color named "lime" actually corresponds to the green primary of an RGB display: it has a different HTML color code (#00FF00). A sample can be seen to the right.

See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11.

This color is the color of lime Jell-O and lemon lime Kool-Aid.

Web color lime green

Displayed at right is the web color called "lime green".

Gaming

  • In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the Hedgehog protagonists Sonic and Amy have lime eyes.
  • In the online game Club Penguin, one of the colors that the player can choose for their penguin is lime green.

    • Music

  • John Lennon chose lime for the color of his Sgt. Pepper uniform.

    • Politics

  • The PAIS Alliance, an Ecuadorean democratic socialist political party headed by Rafael Correa, uses a tone of lime green in its party logo, along with a tone of midnight blue.

    • Sexuality

  • In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a lime colored bandana means one is into the fetish of sitophilia, otherwise known as food fetishism.

    • Sports

  • The National Rugby League team the Canberra Raiders' main color is lime green.
  • English football team Forest Green Rovers of the National League adopted lime green and black as its club colors in 2012.

    • Transportation

  • The IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway is colored lime green.
  • The image color of the motorcycles of Kawasaki_Heavy_Industries.

    • Crayons

  • Crayola has released a crayon with the color label "Lime".

    • References

    Lime (color) Wikipedia
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