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cyan

cyan

3.9
A greenish blue color between blue and green
  • adjective
  • /ˈsaɪ.ən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cian
  • She chose a cyan dress for the summer party because it complemented her skin tone beautifully.

I don't have any solid cyan option.

Examples

  • The blue dog bone gets subtracted and the green and cyan dog bones both reflect green, making you question which is which.

  • We've deleted the edge that's cyan, so that one's going to expand, and we move a little bit.

  • You know, instead of cyan, I have the blue here.

  • OK, it's it looks like cyan with a little bit of the magenta in it.

  • I don't have any solid cyan option.

  • I'm just going to take my high def cyan again and I'm going to just go round my head.

  • But think of that light cyan as mass fills the entire slide and fills the entire universe in our toy problem here.

  • The walls of the room were painted a lovely shade of cyan, reminiscent of the ocean on a clear day.

  • In printing, cyan is one of the primary colors used to create a wide range of other hues.

Synonyms

blue-green
vscyan
6 1.8

A color that is a mix of blue and green

is the technical printing and scientific name for that color

How Blue

azure
12 4.9
blue
1.0
cyan
  • Specialized
3.9
teal
31 2.7
green
1.0

Surface Forms

cyan positive

Etymology

Cyan comes from the Greek word kyanos meaning 'dark blue'. It names the color that sits between blue and green, so think of a blue sky with a little green mixed in — that's why cyan means a greenish-blue.