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Post by grammadee on Oct 25, 2023 17:15:09 GMT
I tend to interchange the words "aqua" and "teal" and "turquoise". If a colour falls somewhere between blue and green I tend to grab one of those adjectives to describe it.
Is there a "proper" way to identify those shades?
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Post by MichyM on Oct 25, 2023 17:28:28 GMT
To me, those colors are not the same color and are not interchangeable. Aqua is a light blue/green, turquoise is a medium blue/green, and teal tends to be a darker blue/green.
ETA: I am a former Interior Designer so color names/identification is important to me.
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Post by BSnyder on Oct 25, 2023 17:49:33 GMT
Teal has more blue undertones and turquoise has more green undertones. Aqua is the lightest of the three and has tends toward blue undertones, as well. The greener tone of aqua would be mint. Saturation from lightest to darkest would be aqua, turquoise, teal. There seems to be great variation between individuals in how they perceive greens and blues, so I believe that's where confusion or misidentification seems to come into play for many of us. Graphic |
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Post by MichyM on Oct 25, 2023 17:56:26 GMT
Teal has more blue undertones and turquoise has more green undertones. Aqua is the lightest of the three and has tends toward blue undertones, as well. The greener tone of aqua would be mint. Saturation from lightest to darkest would be aqua, turquoise, teal. There seems to be great variation between individuals in how they perceive greens and blues, so I believe that's where confusion or misidentification seems to come into play for many of us. GraphicThat 100%. Different people call different colors different things. I mean ask 3 people what color "mauve" or chartreuse" is and you'll likely get 3 different answers  |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 25, 2023 19:36:09 GMT
Yes, these ones are tricky! I think of teal as being a darker richer color with green tones, that's fairly easy for me to label. But turquoise is like the stone and aqua is more blue. Sometimes it's hard to tell if something is more like a turquoise or an aqua without having them right next to each other to compare. Of course it's all a continuum so it's hard to say where one color stops and another starts. The color challenge I posted today said aqua but I know my cards were much more blue and not really aqua at all, even though I started blending with a color that looked aqua to start with, but is actually probably a teal if fully saturated. And the example I linked to by someone else also didn't look aqua at all, though I can't put a name to what color it did appear to be. Add the problems of lighting and/or screen settings... But here's something I could never get my head around when I lived in Japan - green apples and green traffic lights are described as being blue, even though they are green and everyone agrees they are green (although who knows how different people actually see them). There's an article explaining where this linguistic anomaly comes from, and it's a good reminder that the name is just a convention we all sort-of agree to so we can be understood. blue green aoi midori |
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Post by pinklady on Oct 25, 2023 20:52:25 GMT
I'm sure there is a proper way to use them based on the green or blue aspect but I typically always use turquoise when I'm talking about any teal, aqua or turquoise color.
I just looked and my ink swatch book divider also has turquoise on the cover page but it encompasses all my teal/aqua/turquoise swatches and is separate from my blue and green sections ink swatches.
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Post by jjpeapea on Oct 25, 2023 23:15:54 GMT
Laughing grammadee because as I was looking through my paper collection to do today's challenge, I'm thinking "Where does turquoise end and aqua begins? Where does a light minty green fit in?" I keep my smaller but still useful paper scraps in hanging file folders and the largest by far is the blue, green and between those shades. (The purple folder is smallest....) The same is true for my ink collection - so many shades of blue/green. |
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Post by riversong1963 on Oct 26, 2023 10:37:52 GMT
I agree that aqua is the lightest; then turquoise; then teal. It doesn't help that different manufacturers interchange the colors at random. They are definitely different. The stone turquoise can be very green or very blue, or even other colors, depending on where it was mined. More confusion.  I also see mint green and aqua interchanged, but mint green is definitely greener. Add to that, colors appear different on the computer screen, and that can vary greatly.  |
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Post by joblackford on Oct 28, 2023 2:22:07 GMT
Laughing grammadee because as I was looking through my paper collection to do today's challenge, I'm thinking "Where does turquoise end and aqua begins? Where does a light minty green fit in?" I keep my smaller but still useful paper scraps in hanging file folders and the largest by far is the blue, green and between those shades. (The purple folder is smallest....) The same is true for my ink collection - so many shades of blue/green. My blue green scrap folder is by the far the fullest too! |
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Post by flanz on Oct 31, 2023 16:29:57 GMT
Teal has more blue undertones and turquoise has more green undertones. Aqua is the lightest of the three and has tends toward blue undertones, as well. The greener tone of aqua would be mint. Saturation from lightest to darkest would be aqua, turquoise, teal. There seems to be great variation between individuals in how they perceive greens and blues, so I believe that's where confusion or misidentification seems to come into play for many of us. GraphicThat 100%. Different people call different colors different things. I mean ask 3 people what color "mauve" or chartreuse" is and you'll likely get 3 different answers My DD and I cannot agree on the color of one of her dresses. She says blue, I say green.  |
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Post by dewryce on Nov 1, 2023 1:58:04 GMT
All of those colors fall under “turquoise-y” for me.
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I also see mint green and aqua interchanged, but mint green is definitely greener. Add to that, colors appear different on the computer screen, and that can vary greatly. 
