Lime (color)

Lime (color)

infobox color
title=Lime
hex=BFFF00
r=191|g=255|b= 0
pic=


source= Maerz & Paul

Lime green is a color between yellow and green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. Maerz and Paul "A Dictionary of Color" New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; The index refers to Plate 20 Color Sample J1 for Lime Green, though Plate 20 has no such label; this color is shown on Plate 20 as being halfway between "yellow-green" (the old name for the color that is now called chartreuse) and "yellow" on the color wheel.] Lime green is a color that is 75% yellow and 25% green.

Lime green

At right is displayed the traditional color lime green. This color is usually called simply "lime" (since this is the color normally regarded as lime long before web colors were invented)Fact|date=February 2008 in order to distinguish it from the "web color lime" (X11 Green) and "web color lime green", shown below.

The first recorded use of "lime green" as a color name in English was in 1905.

Web color "lime" (X11 Green)

infobox color
title= Lime (HTML/CSS); Green (X11)
hex= 00FF00
r= 0|g=255|b= 0 |rgbspace=sRGB
source=HTML/CSS [http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#html4 W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords] ]

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.

Web color lime green

infobox color
title= Lime Green
hex= 32CD32
r= 50|g=205|b= 50
source=X11

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

Electric lime

infobox color
title=Electric Lime
hex=CCFF00| r=204|g=255|b= 0
source=Crayola

At right is displayed the color electric lime.

This Crayola color was created in 1990.

This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.

Lime in culture

American Cuisine
* Lime Jell-O is the official state food of Utah [cite news
title = Utah loves Jell-O - official
last = Kay
first = Katty
publisher = BBC News
date = 2001-02-06
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1156021.stm
accessdate = 2007-02-19 ] and Utah is a state in the Jell-O Belt.

Automobiles

* Chrysler Corporation automobiles were available painted a bright yellow-green called "Sublime" on Dodges and "Limelight" on Plymouths in the early 1970s [http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?
] , [http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?
] ; there were additional lime-related color names on Chrysler-built cars of the era such as "Lime poly", a metallic yellow-green. Jeeps were available in the mid-2000s painted "Electric Lime", a bright metallic centric green [http://www.tcpglobal.com/aclchip.aspx?
] .

Sports

* National Rugby League team, the Canberra Raiders' main color is lime green

References

External links

* [http://dowhatnow.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/19/front_cover_with_shrimp_board.jpgLime colored limeade drinks from the cover of a 1975 cookbook:]

ee also

* Chartreuse (color)
* List of colors


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