![]() ![]() Thus in modern color terminology, harlequin is the color halfway between green and chartreuse green on the RGB color wheel. On color plate 17 in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (see reference below), the color harlequin is shown as being a highly saturated rich color at a position halfway between chartreuse and green. Harlequin is a color described as being located between green and yellow (closer to green than to yellow) on the color wheel. If the visible spectrum is wrapped to form a color wheel, green appears midway between chartreuse and spring green, or cyan and yellow: Because green is located at a hue angle of 120°, it has a tertiary color range of 105° and 135°, and any color out of this range is more related to chartreuse or spring green than green. ![]() Secondary colors have a color range of 60° (30°), tertiary colors have a color range of 30° (15°), quaternary colors have a color range of 15° (7.5°), quinary colors have a color range of 7.5° (3.75°), and so on. ![]() In a color proximity sense, a primary color has a color range of 120° (60° on each side of the color's hue) and any color has to be within that range to be considered a variation of that color. Wrapping the spectrum into a color wheel 3.2 Green (NCS) (psychological primary green).1 Wrapping the spectrum into a color wheel.
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