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Encyclopedia > Aqua (color)

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Words "aqua" and "cyan" are used interchangeably in computer graphics, and especially web design, to refer to a subtractive primary color cyan. Traditionally that color, defined as #00FFFF in hex, or (0,255,255) in RGB, is called "cyan", but X11 color names introduced the alternative name "aqua". Later, W3C popularized the name by using it in the named color palette of HTML 3.2 specifications. Computer graphics is a sub-field of computer science and is concerned with digitally synthesizing and manipulating visual content. ... Web design is the design of web pages, websites and web applications using HTML, CSS, images, and other media. ... A primary color is a color that cannot be created by mixing other colors in the gamut of a given color space. ... Cyan (from Greek κυανοs, meaning blue) may be used as the name of any of a number of a range of colors in the blue/green part of the spectrum. ... Authors of web pages have a variety of options available for specifying colors for elements of web documents. ... The RGB color model utilizes the additive model in which red, green, and blue light are combined in various ways to create other colors. ... In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... HTML, short for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ...


See also

Aquamarine is a color, a shade between green and cyan. ... Cyan (from Greek κυανοs, meaning blue) may be used as the name of any of a number of a range of colors in the blue/green part of the spectrum. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

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    Web colors black silver gray white red maroon purple fuchsia green lime olive yellow orange blue navy teal aqua
                                     
      Shades of cyan  
    Alice blue Aqua Aquamarine Baby blue Bondi blue Cerulean Cyan Pine green Robin egg blue Teal Turquoise Viridian
                           

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    Bottle Colors Page (7439 words)
    Although color is one of the more obvious and relatively easy to describe attributes of a historic bottle, it is unfortunately of limited utility in classifying a bottle as to age or type.
    Each color category discussion includes a general summary of how the color was produced, variations within the color category, pictures of bottles (with dating details) showing some of the variations, and an overview of the diagnostic utility of the color for dating and/or typing bottles.
    Aqua bottles became uncommon after the 1920s when colorless glass largely replaced aqua as the color of choice for bottle users wishing their product to be visible to the buyer (Miller and McNichol 2002).
    Aqua (color) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (131 words)
    Aqua is an alternative name of color cyan, used mostly by graphic designers and other computer-related professionals.
    Color aquamarine is a more accurate representation of what would be called "aqua" in the world of traditional media.
    Words "aqua" and "cyan" are used interchangeably in computer graphics, and especially web design, to refer to a subtractive primary color cyan.
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