Cyan (process) Color

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Cyan (process) Color 226 - #00B7EB

In the additive color system, or RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a computer or television display, cyan is made by mixing equal amounts of green and blue light. Since it is the complement of red, it can also be made by the removal of red from white light. Mixing red light and cyan light at the right intensity on a black screen will make white.

This color is also called aqua and was formerly known as "cyan blue" or cyan-blue. The first recorded use of cyan blue as a color name in English was in 1879. Cyan light has a wavelength of between 490 and 520 nanometers, between the wavelengths of blue and green. Some tones of color in the cyan color range are teal, turquoise, electric blue and aquamarine

The dome of the Tilla Kari Mosque in Samarkand, Uzbekistan (1660) is cyan. The color is widely used in architecture in Turkey and Central Asia.
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