Lime (color)

Lime
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#C0FF00
sRGBB (r, g, b)(192, 255, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)(75°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(93, 111, 106°)
SourceRGB color system
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-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. Alternate names for this color included yellow-green, lemon-lime, lime green, or bitter lime.

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

Lime (color hex code #C0FF00) is a pure spectral color at approximately 564 nanometers on the visible spectrum when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram.

Lime as a quaternary color on the RGB color wheel
  yellow
  lime
  chartreuse
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