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 colorchartreuse and yellow on the color wheel.[1] Alternate names for this color included yellow-green, lemon-lime, lime green, or bitter lime.[2]
The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890.[3][1]
During the 2000s, lime green was a very popular aesthetic, particularly with products, throughout the entirety of the decade and eventually saw a resurgence during the early 2020s.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Famous examples include Song Airlines,[11][12][13][14]Crocs shoes,[15][16][17] and the Seattle Seahawks.[18]
Some fire engines in the United States are lime yellow rather than red due to safety and ergonomics reasons. A 2009 study by the U.S. Fire Administration concluded that fluorescent colors, including yellow-green and orange, are easiest to spot in daylight.[19]
Key lime is a light lime color that is named after a Crayola Pearl Brites crayon.
Lemon-lime
Lemon-lime is a fluorescentchartreuse 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
The color Arctic lime is close to electric lime, and was named in 2009. This is one of the colors in Crayola's eXtreme colors ultra-bright colored pencils.
Peridot
The color peridot is a shade of lime with lemon undertones, which represents the color of the peridot gemstone. Peridot is the birthstone for those born in August.
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.
Electric lime
Electric lime is a Crayola color created in 1990. This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.
French lime
The color French lime is the shade of lime called "lime" in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.
The W3C web color named green is darker than the color named green in X11, using the HTML color code #008000 as compared to the color code #00FF00 in X11. This lime versus green issue is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme.
Lime green
Lime green is a vivid yellowish green web color.
Bright lime
Bright lime is a luminous vivid chartreuse green web color.
^ a bMaerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; The index refers to Plate 20 Color Sample J1 as Lime Green; this color is shown on Plate 20 as being halfway between yellow-green (the old name for the color that is now called chartreuse green) and yellow on the color wheel.
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^Staff Writer (16 April 2003). "Song takes flight while airlines sing the blues". Times Herald-Record. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
^"The colourful clog that is all the rage". investors.crocs.com. 24 September 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^"Crazy for Crocs: Popular rubber clogs can be seen anywhere". investors.crocs.com. 4 November 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^"Have you been bit yet?". investors.crocs.com. 11 August 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
^Drahold, Byron (17 March 2017). "St. Patrick's Day special: History of the Seahawks green uniforms". Seahawks Wire. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
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^Bilik, Yan. "Dictionnaire des noms de couleurs". pourpre.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2022. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^ a b"W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. Retrieved 8 June 2010.
External links
Look up Lime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Lime colored limeade drinks from the cover of a 1975 cookbook