Cyan
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Cyan is the color halfway between blue and green on the color wheel. It is one of the primary (main) colors of ink in an inkjet printer, along with black, yellow and magenta.
Cyan is a secondary color of light, along with magenta and yellow. The primary colors of light are: blue, red and green. Cyan is made by mixing green and blue light.
Cyan is the opposite of red and is halfway between green and blue.
Meaning of cyan
- Cyan is associated with making someone feel better and protection, as well as being associated with good health from getting exercise by going swimming. This is because the water in a swimming pool is usually colored cyan from having a plaster white bottom that reflects the blue sky. The tiles of a swimming pool are often colored cyan, which makes the cyan color of the water in a swimming pool even more intense.
- Cyan is a restful, calming color that symbolizes relaxation, especially that shade of cyan known as bright turquoise (shown below) which can be the color of the water in lagoons in tropical countries where people go swimming on their vacation.
- The shade of Cyan called medium aquamarine (shown below) is used for the uniforms of nurses and surgeons and also used to paint rooms in hospitals because it is regarded as a color that calms and relaxes the patients.
Tones of the Cyan color comparison chart
| Rainshower (Sharpie) (Hex: #EDFEFF) (RGB: 237, 254, 255) |
| Bubbles (Xona.com Color List) (Hex: #E7FEFF) (RGB: 231, 254, 255) |
| Light Cyan (web color) (Hex: #E1FFFF) (RGB: 225, 255, 255) |
| Alice Blue (web color) (Hex: #F0F8FF) (RGB: 240, 248, 255) |
| Pale Turquoise (web color) (Hex: #AFEEEE) (RGB: 175, 238, 238) |
| Powder Blue (web color) (Hex: #B0E0E6) (RGB: 176, 224, 230) |
| Light Blue (Hex: #ADD8E6) (RGB: 173, 216, 230) |
| Ultra Blue (Blizzard Blue) (Crayola) (Hex: #A3E3ED) (RGB: 163, 227, 237) |
| Pale Robin Egg Blue (Hex: #96DED1) (RGB: 150, 222, 205) |
| Light Keppel (Keppel Light (Xona.com color list)) (Hex: #8DDCD3) (RGB: 141, 220, 211) |
| Aquamarine (Crayola) (web color) (Light Teal) (Hex: #7FFFD4) (RGB: 127, 255, 212) |
| Aquamarine Blue (Crayola Aquamarine) (Hex: #71D9E2) (RGB: 113, 217, 226) |
| Baby Blue (Hex: 89CFFD) (RGB: 137, 207, 240) |
| Electric Blue (Hex: 7DF9FF) (RGB: 125, 249, 255) |
| Cyan (web color "Aqua") (Hex: #00FFFF) (RGB: 0, 255, 255) |
| Turquoise Blue (Hex: #00FFEF) (RGB: 0, 255, 239) |
| Bright Turquoise (Hex: #08E8DE) (RGB: 8, 232, 222) |
| Turquoise (web color) (Hex: #40E0D0) (RGB: 64, 224, 208) |
| Maya Blue (Hex: #73C2FB) (RGB: 115, 194, 215) |
| 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, 183, 235) |
| Bright Cerulean (Crayola Cerulean) (Hex: #02A4D3) (RGB: 2, 164, 211) |
| Deep Turquoise (web color "Dark Turquoise") (Hex: #00CED1) (RGB: 0, 206, 209) |
| Robin Egg Blue (Hex: #00CCCC) (RGB: 0, 204, 204) |
| Medium Turquoise (web color) (Hex: #48D1CC) (RGB: 72, 209, 204) |
| Medium Aquamarine (web color) (Hex: #66CDAA) (RGB: 102, 205, 170) |
| Keppel (Xona.com color list) (Hex: #3AB09E) (RGB: 58, 176, 158) |
| Light Sea Green (web color) (Hex: #20B2AA) (RGB: 32, 178, 170) |
| Light Teal Blue (Crayola Teal Blue) (Hex: #18A7B5) (RGB: 24, 167, 181) |
| Water (Traditional Japanese colors) (Hex: #96ABA5) (RGB: 134, 171, 165) |
| Cadet Blue (web color) (Hex: #5F9EA0) (RGB: 95, 158, 109) |
| Viridian (Hex: #40826D) (RGB: 64, 130, 109) |
| Pine Green (Crayola) (Hex: #01796F) (RGB: 1, 121, 111) |
| Dark Cyan (web color) (Hex: #008B8B) (RGB: 0, 139, 139) |
| Teal (web color) (Hex: #008080) (RGB: 0, 128, 128) |
| Water Blue (RAL 5021) (Hex: #256D7B) (RGB: 37, 109, 123) |
| Teal Blue (Hex: #367588) (RGB: 54, 117, 136) |
| Blue-Green (Crayola) (Hex: #0D98BA) (RGB: 13, 152, 186) |
| Bondi Blue (Hex: #0095B6) (RGB: 0, 149, 182) |
| Rich Electric Blue (Hex: #0892D0) (RGB: 8, 146, 208) |
| Cerulean (Hex: #007BA7) (RGB: 0, 123, 167) |
| Steel Blue (web color) (Hex: #4682B4) (RGB: 70, 130, 180) |
| Medium Electric Blue (Hex: #035096) (RGB: 3, 80, 150) |
| Dark Electric Blue (Hex: #536878) (RGB: 83, 104, 120) |
| Midnight Green (Eagle Green) (Dark Teal) (Hex: #004953) (RGB: 0, 73, 83) |
| Charleston Green (Hex: #1A2118) (RGB: 26, 33, 24) |
Cyan Media
In the RGB color model, used to make colors on computer and TV displays, cyan is created by the combination of green and blue light.
In the RGB color wheel of subtractive colors, cyan is midway between blue and green.
In the CMYK color model, used in color printing, cyan, magenta and yellow combined make grey. In practice, since the inks are not perfect, some black ink is added.
Color printers today use, magenta, cyan and yellow ink to produce a wide range of colors.
Cyan and red are contrasting colors. They have strong contrast and harmony, and if combined, they make grey.
Cyan is the color of shallow water over a sandy beach. The water absorbs the color red from the sunlight, leaving a greenish-blue color.
The dome of the Tilla Kari Mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (1660) is cyan. The color is widely used in architecture in Turkey and Central Asia.
The planet Uranus, seen from the Voyager 2 spacecraft. The cyan color comes from clouds of methane gas in the planet's atmosphere.
A surgical team in Germany. It has been suggested that surgeons and nurses adopted a cyan-colored gown and operating rooms because it contrasts the color of red blood, thus reducing glare, though the evidence for this claim is limited.
The pigments in color photographs may degrade at different rates, potentially resulting in a cyan tint.
