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Harlequin is an adjective used to describe something that is colored in a pattern similar to the dress traditionally associated to Harlequins. It may also refer to a color that is between the web color chartreuse and the color green on the color wheel. It is a color that is 75% green and 25% yellow.
Harlequin
| Harlequin | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #3FFF00 |
| sRGB (r, g, b) | (63, 255, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (105°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (88, 133, 126°) |
| Source | |
| B: Normalized to (byte) | |
At right is displayed the color harlequin.
On color plate 17 in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (see reference below), the color harlequin is shown. The first recorded use of harlequin as a color name in English was in 1923.
References
- Paterson, Ian (2003), A Dictionary of Colour (1st paperback ed.), London: Thorogood (published 2004), p. 198, ISBN 1854183753, OCLC 60411025
- Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930), A Dictionary of Color (1st ed.), New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 57 plate 17 color sample K11; p. 196, OCLC 1150631