Teal is a medium blue-green color, although it is more blue than green. It is named after the common teal, a member of the duck family, whose eyes are surrounded by the color. The complementary color of teal is coral pink.

Contents 1 Teal 2 Teal blue 3 Teal in human culture 4 See also 5 References

[edit] Teal

Teal
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#008080
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 128, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 50[1]%)
Source		HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color teal is displayed at right. It comes from a mixture of the primary color, blue, and the secondary color green.

Teal is one of the initial group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987, shown below.

The first recorded use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.^[3]
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[edit] Teal blue

Teal Blue
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#367588
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(54, 117, 136)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(194°, 60%, 53[4]%)
Source		Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Teal blue is displayed at right. It is a medium shade of teal with more blue.

The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927.^[5]

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. ^[6]

[edit] Teal in human culture

Aerospace

• Teal Group is a company that does aerospace consulting. ^[7]

Computers

• In Windows 95 teal is the default background color.

Internet

• In an online vote, Teal was voted the most popular shade of blue just ahead of cornflower blue.

Sexuality

• In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a teal bandana means that one's sexual fetish is cock and ball torture. ^{[8] [9]}

Sports

• The San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League use teal as their main color. Their American Hockey League farm team Worcester Sharks also play in teal.
• The Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League use teal as their primary color. The Miami Dolphins use a teal-like color called "aqua green".
• The Detroit Pistons used teal as one of their primary colors from 1996 to 2001.
• The New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association use teal as their primary color.
• The Port Adelaide Power's main color is teal. It is the only team in the Australian Football League to use teal.
• Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners use teal as a secondary color, calling it "northwest green." The Florida Marlins are nicknamed "The Boys in Teal."

Video Games

• The Nintendo Game Boy is a small handheld video game system which is available in a pale tint of teal.
• Teal is a choice of team color in many video games.

[edit] See also

Look up Teal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• List of colors

[edit] References

v • d • e Web colors
black	gray	silver	white	maroon	red	purple	fuchsia	green	lime	olive	yellow	navy	blue	teal	aqua

v • d • e Shades of cyan
Alice blue	Aqua	Aquamarine	Baby blue	Bondi blue	Cerulean	Cyan	Electric blue	Midnight green	Pine green
Robin egg blue	Teal	Turquoise	Viridian
The samples shown above are representative only.

v • d • e Shades of green
Army green	Asparagus	Bright green	British racing green	Camouflage green	Celadon	Chartreuse	Dartmouth green	Electric green	Emerald
Fern green	Forest green	Gray-asparagus	Green	Green-yellow	Harlequin	Hunter green	Islamic green	Jade	Jungle green
Kelly green	Lime	Lime green	Midnight green	Moss green	Myrtle	Office green	Olive	Olive drab	Pear
Persian green	Pigment green	Pine green	Rifle green	Sacramento State green	Sea green	Shamrock green	Spring green	Spring bud	Tea green
Teal	Viridian	Yellow-green	Variations of green
The samples shown above are representative only.

v • d • e Shades of blue
Air Force blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Blue	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue	Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue	Ceil
Cerulean	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue	Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue
Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal Blue	Glaucous	Han blue	Iceberg	Indigo	International Klein Blue	Iris
Light blue	Majorelle blue	Maya blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue	Palatinate blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Powder blue
Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue	St. Patrick's blue	Steel blue	Teal	Tiffany Blue	Ultramarine	Yale Blue
The samples shown above are representative only.

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