Lime (color)


Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse 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 English was in 1890.
Lime is a pure spectral color at approximately 564 nanometers on the visible spectrum when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram.

Variations

Lemon-lime

Lemon-lime is a fluorescent chartreuse color that is named after the carbonated soft drinks such as Sprite, 7 Up, and Sierra Mist.
The red value to this neon color is almost to yellow.

Arctic lime

The color Arctic lime is displayed at right.
Close to electric lime, but created in 2009. This is one of the colors in Crayola's eXtreme colors ultra-bright colored pencils.

Peridot

The color peridot is displayed at right.
gemstones
This shade of lime with lemon undertones represents the color of the peridot gemstone. Peridot is the birthstone for those born in August.

Volt

The color Volt is displayed at right.
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, below.

Electric lime

The color electric lime is displayed at right.
This Crayola color was created in 1990.
This tint of lime is popular in psychedelic art.

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 France. A sample can be seen to the right.

Web color "lime" (X11 Green)

The web color named "lime" actually corresponds to the green primary of an RGB display: it has a different HTML color code. A sample can be seen to the right.
See the chart in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11.

Lime green

The web color "lime green" is displayed at right.

In culture

In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a lime-colored bandana means one is into the sexual fetish of sitophilia, otherwise known as food fetishism.