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The color 'lime' is a color that is a combination of 75% yellow and 25% 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.

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Electric Lime

Lime

Web color "Lime"

Lime Green

Lime in human culture

References

See also

Electric Lime

At right is displayed the color 'electric lime'.
This Crayola color was created in 1990.

Lime

At right is displayed the color 'lime'.
The first recorded use of ''lime'' as a color name in English was in 1905. ^[1]

Web color "Lime"

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.
This color is the color of lime Jell-O.

Lime Green

Displayed at right is the color 'lime green' (This is the web color called ''lime green''.).
This is the color of the outer skin of a lime.

Lime in human culture

'Automobiles'

★ Chrysler Corporation automobiles were available painted a bright yellow-green called "Sublime" on Dodges and "Limelight" on Plymouths in the early 1970s[1], [2]; there were additional lime-related color names on Chrysler-built cars of the era such as "Lime poly", a metallic yellow-green. Jeeps were available in the mid-2000s painted "Electric Lime", a bright metallic centric green [3].
'American Cuisine'

★ Lime Jell-O is the official state food of Utah^[4] and Utah is a state in the Jell-O Belt.
'High-visibility clothing'

★ Fluorescent shades of lime (ranging to chartreuse yellow) are common in high-visibility clothing.
'Marketing'

★ In grocery marketing, many new products with lime flavoring have appeared since the early 1990s, which often appear in lime colored packaging (for example, since 2002, lime -flavored Best Foods mayonnaise has been made available).
'Music'

★ Lime is the name of a popular 1980s dance music group.
'Theatre'

★ The word ''limelight'' has nothing to do with either the fruit or the color lime; it refers to a method of heating Calcium oxide (lime) to produce light.

References

1. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample: Page 63 Plate 20 Color Sample J1--Lime (This color is shown as being halfway between ''yellow-green'' [the old name for the color that is now called chartreuse ] and ''yellow'' on the color wheel)
2. W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
3. W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
4. Utah loves Jell-O - official Katty Kay

See also

★ Chartreuse Yellow

★ List of colors