Teal (color)

Teal, also called teal green, is a medium to dark greenish blue color of low saturation; a dark cyan. The color is said to get its name from the fact that it surrounds the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family. The complementary color of teal is coral pink.

Teal is one of the initial group of 17 HTML/CSS web colors formulated in 1987, shown below.

The first recorded use of Teal as a color name in English was in 1917.^[2]

Medium Teal Blue is a medium shade of teal with more blue.

[edit] Teal in human culture

In an online vote, Teal was voted the most popular shade of blue just ahead of cornflower blue.

Teal was chosen to be the main color for many Diamondback bikes, after the success of the teal colored Joker BMX

The San Jose Sharks' main color is teal. They are the only team in the NHL which use teal in their team colors. Their American Hockey League farm team Worcester Sharks also play in teal.
The Jacksonville Jaguars are the only NFL team to use teal as their primary color.
The New Orleans Hornets of the NBA use teal as their primary color.
The Port Adelaide Power's main color is teal. It is the only team in the AFL to use teal.
MLB's Seattle Mariners use teal as a secondary color, calling it "northwest green"
MLB's Florida Marlins are nicknamed "The Boys in Teal"

The Nintendo Game Boy is a small handheld video game system which is available in a pale tint of teal.
The color teal is used as the team color for the third player in Blizzard's Real time strategy games Warcraft 3 and StarCraft.

^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; color sample of Teal: Page 101 Plate 39 Color Sample L7