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Harlequin
Harlequin
Harlequin | |
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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 | |
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At right is displayed the color harlequin.
In color plate 57 in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (see reference below), the color harlequin is shown as being on the color wheel precisely halfway between green and yellow-green (the color which was formerly called yellow green is now called chartreuse).
The first recorded use of harlequin as a color name in English was in 1923.
Harlequin in Human Culture
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- In medieval times, jesters often wore a harlequin colored costume (the word harlequin is sometimes used as a synonym for jester).
- Harlequins, comic figures in Italian opera, 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 costumes for mimes, the theatre, and opera.
- Harlequin, as well as green, chartreuse, bright green, or viridian may be used to represent environmentalism or the Green movement.
References
- Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample: Page 57 Plate 17 Color Sample K11--Harlequin