Teal

Teal is a medium-saturated, blue-green color, similar to medium green and dark cyan.

It can be created by mixing blue with green into a white base, or deepened as needed with a little bit of black or gray color. The complementary color of teal is coral. It is also one of the initial group of 16 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987.

The first recorded use of teal as a color name in English was in 1917.

Etymology

Its name is derived from the Middle English tele, a word akin to the Dutch taling and the Middle Low German telink. As a color, its name is believed to have been taken from the small freshwater common teal, a member of the duck family whose eyes are surrounded by this color.

Variations of teal

Teal blue

Teal blue is a medium tone of teal with more blue. The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927.

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. Teal was subsequently a heavily used color in the 1950s and 1960s.

Teal (name)

Teal is a surname and a given name which may refer to:

People

Surname

Given name

Fictional characters

Teal (disambiguation)

Teal is a blue-green color.

Teal or TEAL may also refer to:

Ducks