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Harlequin is 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
- Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample: Page 57 Plate 17 Color Sample K11--Harlequin