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What color is light cyan

Light cyan is to be a little lighter than cyan color, a class of blue with green, higher shades, highly saturated; specifically refers to the three complementary colors in a color, one of the three original

colors, red complementary color.

Cyan is a base color, crisp and not open, eloquent and not smooth, refreshing and not monotonous.

Cyan is a color unique to China, and had an extremely important meaning in ancient Chinese society. Cyan symbolizes strength, hope, simplicity and solemnity, and is often used in traditional artifacts and clothing.

Expanded Information

Whether cyan is blue or green, in the textual description is often unable to accurately express the effect seen by the naked eye. Cyan is a color between blue and green, by the green light and blue light mixed in equal quantities, if it is impossible to define a color is blue or green, this color can be called cyan.

A class of blue with a greenish tinge, higher shades, highly saturated; specifically, one of the three complementary colors, one of the three primary colors, the complementary color of red.

Because of the actual feeling of people on the color of the reason, in the visible spectrum of cyan color gamut is more narrow (because 510nm-480nm color brightness is basically the same), not good to distinguish, green direct transition into blue, but the cell phone out of the very obvious.

In accordance with the order of the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple, green should be a color between green and blue, i.e., bluish green or greenish blue.

Color color values

Network code = #00FFFF,

RGB red, green, and blue light system = (Red 0, Green 255, Blue 255)

CMYK four-color printing system = (Cyan C 100, Magenta 0, Yellow Y 0, Black K 0)

HSB system = (Primary color 180, Saturation 100, Brightness 100)

Lab System (L 91 a -51 b -15)