Lime

Lime, also traditionally known as lime green or lime-green, is a color three-quarters of the way between yellow and green (closer to yellow than to green), so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890. Lime (color#BFFF00) is a pure spectral color at approximately 564 nanometers on the visible spectrum when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram. At right is displayed the color electric lime. This Crayola color was created in 1990. This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art. At right is displayed the color French lime,...