4-485: Teal is a blue-green color . Teal or TEAL may also refer to: Teal Teal is a greenish-blue color. Its name comes from that of a bird—the Eurasian teal ( Anas crecca )—which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head. The word is often used colloquially to refer to shades of cyan in general. It can be created by mixing cyan into a green base, or deepened as needed with black or gray. It
8-518: Is also one of the first group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors . In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, teal is created by reducing the brightness of cyan to about one half. In North America , teal was a fad color during the 1990s, with, among others, many sports teams adopting the color for their uniforms. The first recorded use of teal as a color name in English
12-423: Is widely used by interior designers . Teal was subsequently a heavily used color in the 1950s and 1960s. Teal blue is also the name of a Crayola crayon color (color #113) from 1990 to 2003. Teal green is a darker shade of teal with more green. It is a variable color averaging a dark bluish-green that is green, darker, and stronger than invisible green or pine tree. Teal green is most closely related to
16-665: Was in 1917. The term teal (referring to a species of duck) is derived from the Middle English tele , a word akin to the Dutch taling and the Middle Low German telink . Teal blue is a medium tone of teal with more blue. The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System , a color system formulated in 1948 that
#628371