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Harlequin (color)

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Harlequin is the color that is halfway 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
 
About these coordinates     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.

The first recorded use of harlequin as a color name in English was was in 1923.

References

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