Lemon or lemon-color is a pale yellow color, the color of the lemon fruit.
The first recorded use of lemon as a color name in English was in 1598.
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Cultural uses
Lemon is the color of the library science discipline for academic regalia in the United States.
Variations of lemon
Some variants are fluorescent colors, but are not displayed as such because fluorescence cannot be represented on a display screen.
Lemon chiffon
The web color lemon chiffon is shown at right.
The color lemon chiffon was formulated in 1987 as one of the X11 color names. After the invention of the world wide web in 1991, these colors became known as the X11 web colors.
Lemon meringue
Displayed at right is the color lemon meringue.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #12-0711 TPX--Lemon Meringue.
Lemon glacier
Lemon glacier is a fluorescent color, displayed in non-fluorescent form at the right.
The color lemon glacier was released by Crayola in 2009 in the extreme twistable crayons. This color is very slightly greenish looking to the naked eye (just barely detectable)--as can be seen in its color box, its green code is very slightly larger than its red code.
Luis Lemon
Luis Lemon is a fluorescent color, displayed in non-fluorescent form at the right.
Luis Lemon is one of Models Own's ice neon nail polish color sets. It is a variant of Laser Lemon below.
Laser lemon
Laser lemon is a fluorescent color, displayed in non-fluorescent form at the right.
The color laser lemon was named by Crayola in 1990. Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been incorrectly been named chartreuse. In actuality, a chartreuse color is one in which the green hex code has a slightly higher value than the red hex code in the rgb values of the color. (See the color chartreuse yellow for the correct version of the traditional color chartreuse.)
Lemon yellow
The color lemon yellow is shown at right.
Lemon yellow was a Crayola color from 1949 to 1990.
Bitter lemon
Displayed at right is the color bitter lemon.
The first use of the color name bitter lemon was in 2001, when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.
Citron
Displayed at right is the color citron.
The name has been used since at least the 1920s for an equal mix of orange and green pigments.
"Citron" is the French word for "lemon". This dark tone of lemon was formulated for use in interior design and fabric design.
Lemon curry
Displayed at right is the color lemon curry.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-0751 TPX--Lemon Curry.
Deep lemon
Displayed at right is the color deep lemon.
Deep lemon is the deep tone of lemon that is called "lemon" by Pantone.
The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #13-0752 TPX--Lemon.
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