Lime
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#BFFF00
sRGBB    (r, g, b)	(191, 255, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)	(25, 0, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(75°, 100%, 100[1]%)
Source	Maerz & Paul[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Lime, also traditionally known as lime green or lime-green, is a color three-quarters of the way between yellow and green (closer to yellow than to green), so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel.^[2]

Lime (traditional lime green) [edit]

The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890.^[3][2]

Lime (color#BFFF00) is a pure spectral color at approximately 564 nanometers on the visible spectrum when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram.

Variations of lime [edit]

Electric lime [edit]

Electric Lime
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#CCFF00
sRGBB    (r, g, b)	(204, 255, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(72°, 100%, 100%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color electric lime.

This Crayola color was created in 1991.

This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.

French lime [edit]

Lime (Pourpre.com)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#9EFD38
sRGBB    (r, g, b)	(158, 253, 56)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)	(38, 0, 78, 1)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(89°, 78%, 99[4]%)
Source	Pourpre.com
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color French lime, which is the shade of lime called "lime" in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

Web color "lime" (X11 Green) [edit]

Lime (HTML/CSS); Green (X11)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FF00
sRGBB    (r, g, b)	(0, 255, 0)
Source	HTML/CSS[5]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The web color named "lime" actually corresponds to the green primary of an RGB display: it has a different HTML color code (#00FF00). A sample can be seen to the right.

See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11.

This color is the color of lime Jell-O and lemon lime Kool-Aid.

Web color lime green [edit]

Lime Green
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#32CD32
sRGBB    (r, g, b)	(50, 205, 50)
Source	X11[5]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color called "lime green".

Lime in human culture [edit]

Politics

The logo of the PAIS Alliance of Ecuador

• The PAIS Alliance, an Ecuadorean democratic socialist political party headed by Rafael Correa, uses a tone of lime green in its party logo, along with a tone of midnight blue.

Sexuality

• In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a lime colored bandana means one is into the fetish of sitophilia.^[6]

Sports

• The National Rugby League team the Canberra Raiders' main color is lime green.
• Lime Gatorade is a popular sports drink—the color lime is used for its labels and packaging.

See also [edit]

• Chartreuse (color)
• List of colors

References [edit]

1. ^ "Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #BFFF00 (Lime):". Web.forret.com. Retrieved 2010-06-08. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Maerz 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.
3. ^ The Daily News (London) 14 July 1890. "lime, n².". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-15.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)
4. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #9EFD38 (French Lime):
5. ^ ^{a b} "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. Retrieved 2010-06-08. 
6. ^ Gay City USA Handkerchief Codes:

External links [edit]

Look up Lime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Lime colored limeade drinks from the cover of a 1975 cookbook: