Lime (colour)

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Lime is a yellowish green colour. It is the colour that is half way between the colour chartreuse green and yellow on the colour wheel.^[1] The colour lime is named after the fruit, lime.

↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Colour New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; The index refers to Plate 20 Colour Sample J1 as Lime Green; this colour is shown on Plate 20 as being halfway between yellow-green (the old name for the colour that is now called chartreuse green) and yellow on the colour wheel.

[mp-1] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Colour New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; The index refers to Plate 20 Colour Sample J1 as Lime Green; this colour is shown on Plate 20 as being halfway between yellow-green (the old name for the colour that is now called chartreuse green) and yellow on the colour wheel.

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