Color Inspiration: 108 Aqua Patterns, Palettes & Colors

Aqua, cyan, aquamarine, blue-green, cyan blue, baby blue, teal, turquoise, and so on and so forth.

Some interesting facts about Aqua (Cyan):

Cyan colored tiles are often used to pave swimming pools to make the water within them seem more inviting to swim in, by making the cyan color of their water seem more intensely colored. Water in swimming pool is colored a bright tint of cyan anyway because chlorine bleach, which is cyan, is added to water in swimming pools for disinfection.

The planet Uranus is cyan because of the abundance of methane in its atmosphere.

Cyanosis is an abnormal blueness of the skin, usually a sign of poor oxygen intake. IE- the patient is "cyanotic"

Patterns

There is a computer game company called Cyan Worlds (a.k.a., Cyan, Inc.).

There is a Final Fantasy VI character named Cyan Garamonde.

Natural gas (methane), used by many for home cooking on gas stoves, when burned has a cyan colored flame.

Palettes

Colors

The color cyan (called aqua by interior designers) was commonly used in the interior design of the 1950s in combination with either magenta or pink and black to give a modern feel to interiors (these colors were also popular for automobiles in the 1950s).

There is a band called Cyan, a British progressive rock band from the 1980s and 1990s.

Cyan is the name of a character in the Norwegian comic strip Nemi.

Cyanotype, or blueprint, a monochrome photographic printing process that predates the use of the word cyan as a color, yields a deep cyan-blue colored print based on the Prussian blue pigment.

Check out a few of our previous color inspiration posts: blue, yellow and green.

Your Favorite Aqua Color Palettes

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