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'''Harlequin''' is the color that is halfway between the ] ] and the color ] on the ]. It is a color that is 75% green and 25% ].


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==Harlequin==
{{infobox color|
title=Harlequin|
hex=3FFF00|
r= 63|g=255|b= 0|
c= 75|m= 0|y=100|k= 0|
h=105|s=100|v=100
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At right is displayed the color '''harlequin'''.

In color plate 57 in the ] book ''A Dictionary of Color'' (see reference below), the color ''harlequin'' is shown as being on the ] precisely halfway between ''green'' and ''yellow-green'' (the color which was formerly called ''yellow green'' is now called '']'').

The first recorded use of ''harlequin'' as a color name in ] was in ]. <ref> Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample: Page 57 Plate 17 Color Sample K11--Harlequin </ref>
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==Harlequin in Human Culture==
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* In ] times, ]s often wore a harlequin colored costume (the word harlequin is sometimes used as a synonym for jester).
* ]s, comic figures in Italian ], sometimes wore harlequin colored costumes (apparently this is the source of the name of the color).
* Because of its association with jesters and harlequins, the color harlequin is often used in ]s for ]s, the ], and ].
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* Harlequin, as well as ], ], ], or ] may be used to represent ] or the ].
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* The color Harlequin may be associated with ], since it is thought that many jesters and harlequins were ]. <ref> Kent, Girard ''The Boy Harleqin and Other Stories'' San Francisco:1983--Gay Sunshine Press This collection of gay ] has a picture of a young man in a harlequin colored ].


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