Turquoise (color)

This box shows the color turquoise.

The water of Havasu creek is turquoise because it has a lot lime in it from the sedimentary rock it runs through.

Turquoise is the color of the gem turquoise. It is a slightly greenish shade of cyan. Turquoise is sometimes described as a mixture of pale blue and green. The name comes from the French word for Turkish.

The turquoise gemstone is the namesake of the color.

Meaning of turquoise

• People who practise holistic medicine say that turquoise has a calming effect on patients. They use this color to treat patients prone to panic attacks or mania. To a lesser degree, mainstream psychiatric hospitals also use turquoise and other light shades of blue and green to calm patients by painting the walls in these colors.

• "The Turquoise" is slang for the waters of the Caribbean. In the sunlight these waters look turquoise because they are shallow.

• The color and gem stone represent Sagittarius.

Tones of turquoise color comparison chart

• Pale Turquoise (web color) (Hex: #AFEEEE) (RGB: 175, 238, 238)
• Turquoise Blue (Hex: #00FFEF) (RGB: 0, 255, 239)
• Bright Turquoise (Hex: #08E8DE) (RGB: 8, 232, 222)
• TURQUOISE (web color) (Hex: #40E0D0) (RGB: 64, 224, 208)
• Medium Turquoise (web color) (Hex: #48D1CC) (RGB: 72, 209, 204)
• Deep Turquoise (web color Dark Turquoise) (Hex: #00CED1) (RGB: 0, 206, 209)

Related pages

• List of colors