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🟦 A blue-green color 🟦 Greenish-blue
cyan

cyan

3.9
A greenish blue color between blue and green
  • adjective
  • /ˈsaɪ.ən/
  • Specialized
: 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.

    Gamers Nexus

  • 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.