Lime is a

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that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called

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. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the

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.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York: 1930

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; The index refers to Plate 20 Color Sample J1 as ''Lime Green''; this color is shown on Plate 20 as being halfway between ''yellow-green'' (the old name for the color that is now called chartreuse green) and ''yellow'' on the color wheel. Alternate names for this color included yellow-green, lemon-lime, lime green, or bitter lime.

Lime (traditional lime green)

The first recorded use of ''lime green'' as a color name in

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was in 1890. Lime (color hex code #BFFF00) is a pure

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at approximately 564 nanometers on the

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when plotted on the

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Variations

Key lime

Key lime is a light lime color that is named after a Crayola Pearl Brites crayon.

Lemon-lime

Lemon-lime is a

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chartreuse color that is named after the carbonated soft drinks such as Sprite,

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, and Sierra Mist. The red value to this neon color is almost to

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Arctic lime

The color Arctic lime is close to electric lime, and was named in 2009. This is one of the colors in

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's eXtreme colors ultra-bright colored pencils.

Peridot

The color peridot is a shade of lime with lemon undertones, which represents the color of the

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gemstone. Peridot is the birthstone for those born in August.

Volt

The color Volt is used by Nike in several of their athletic products, most notably their Air Max 90 Hyperfuse sneakers, which were introduced in 2011. This color is similar to electric lime.

Electric lime

Electric lime is a Crayola color created in 1990. This

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of lime is popular in

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French lime

The color French lime is the shade of lime called "lime" in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in

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Web color "lime" (X11 Green)

The web color named "lime", in the

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color scheme maintained by the

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(W3C), has the identical

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as the color

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, as found in

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formulized over 1985–1989. The web color lime / X11 color green match the green primary color of the

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. The W3C web color named green is darker than the color named green in X11, using the

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color code #008000 as compared to the color code #00FF00 in X11. This lime versus green issue is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme.

Lime green

Lime green is a vivid yellowish green web color.

Bright lime

Bright lime is a luminous vivid chartreuse green web color.

Usage

Some fire engines in the United States are lime yellow rather than red due to safety and ergonomics reasons. A 2009 study by the U.S. Fire Administration concluded that fluorescent colors, including yellow-green and orange, are easiest to spot in daylight. In the bandana code of the gay

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, wearing a lime-colored

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means one is into the sexual fetish of

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, otherwise known as food fetishism. The

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team

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uses lime green as one of its main colours, as does the

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’s

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, which utilizes a color officially named Action Green, which strongly resembles lime green.

References

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Lime colored limeade drinks from the cover of a 1975 cookbook
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