![]() In short, it can be said that turquoise is a green shade of the cyan range of colors. In other words, turquoise is characterized by the presence of extra green over the blue. This shows you that turquoise is more green than blue. The Oxford English dictionary says that turquoise is ‘a greenish-blue colour.’ It can be said that turquoise is much lighter than aqua. You can now see what was meant by aqua having the same proportion of green and blue. ![]() This shows that the presence of red in aqua is virtually a zero, while green value is 255 and blue value is 255. When it comes to the RGB value, the RGB value of aqua is 0, 255 and 255. Unlike turquoise, aqua has the shades of blue and green in the same proportion. In the cyan range of colors aqua is often considered indistinguishable from aquamarine and hence the real difference is between aqua and turquoise. This is the reason why aqua can be spotted very easily in the color wheel. The Oxford English dictionary says that aqua is ‘a light bluish-green colour.’ According to this, you can say that aqua can be sensed as a color between green and blue. On the contrary, aqua and turquoise are not easily distinguishable from each other. This is not the case with colors such as red and blue since they are quite easily distinguishable from each other. ![]() ![]() They bear very close resemblance to one another due to the fact that they all have traces of blue and green colors in common. The group comprises of the three colors, namely, aqua, turquoise and aquamarine. It is interesting to note that aqua and turquoise belong to a group of spectrum of colors called the cyan spectrum (green to blue colour range). Aqua and Turquoise are two such colors that often are taken to be one and the same due to this close resemblance with each other. We often find two or more colors that resemble one another to such an extent that it becomes difficult to differentiate them. Because of the close resemblance in colour, it is difficult to identify the difference between Aqua and Turquoise in the first look, if one is not used to different shades of a colour. ![]()
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