Aqua (color)

Aqua (Latin for "water") is a greenish-blue color, a variation of the color cyan. The web color aqua is identical to the web color cyan, also sometimes called electric cyan, one of the three secondary colors of the RGB color model used on computer and television displays. In the HSV color wheel aqua is precisely halfway between blue and green. However, aqua is not the same as the primary subtractive color process cyan used in printing.

Aqua-colored sea waters

Aqua
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FFFF
HSV       (h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 100%)
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(0, 255, 255)
Source	HTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Brilliant bluish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The words "aqua" and "cyan" are used interchangeably in computer graphics, and especially web design, to refer to the additive secondary color "cyan". Both colors are made exactly the same way on a computer screen, by combining blue and green light at equal and full intensity on a black screen. 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.

Pale aqua

Pale Aqua
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#BED3E5
HSV       (h, s, v)	(207°, 17%, 89%)
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(190, 211, 229)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Very pale blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed adjacent is the color pale aqua.

See also

• Color of water
• Lists of colors

References

1. "CSS Color Module Level 3". W3.org. Retrieved 27 October 2017.