Lemon or lemon-color is a vivid

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characteristic of the lemon fruit. Shades of "lemon" may vary significantly from the fruit's actual color, including fluorescent tones and creamy hues reflective of lemon pies and confections. The first recorded use of ''lemon'' as a color name in

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dates to 1598. In the academic regalia of the United States, the color denotes

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Variations of lemon

Lemon chiffon

Lemon chiffon is the X11 color and

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''lemonchiffon''. It was formulated in 1987 when it was first introduced as a named color in the

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. After the invention of the

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in 1991, these colors became known as the X11 web colors.

Lemon meringue

Displayed at right is the color lemon meringue. Lemon Meringue Pie

The source of this color is the "

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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

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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

in 1990. Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been incorrectly been named ''

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''. 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

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 th
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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

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Lemon curry

Displayed at right is the color lemon curry. The source of this color is the "

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.Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder—Type the word "Lemon" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear:
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