Color Names

Polished Aqua

Smoothed turquoise, buffed to a sheen like still water.

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Polished Aqua is a soft teal, close to turquoise.

It can be described as soft, light, fresh and rather unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Polished Aqua

Polishing

Polishing is the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing it or by applying a chemical treatment, leaving a clean surface with a significant specular reflection. In some materials, polishing is also able to reduce diffuse reflection to minimal values.

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Aqua (color)

Aqua is a variation of the color cyan. The normalized color coordinates for the two web colors named aqua and cyan are identical. It was one of the three secondary colors of the RGB color model used on computer and television displays. In the HSV color wheel aqua is precisely halfway between blue and green. However, aqua is not the same as the primary subtractive color named process cyan used in printing.

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polished

Adjective

  1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
  2. Refined, elegant.

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of polish
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aqua

Noun

  1. Water (as a compound).
  2. A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green, most often similar to the colour cyan, though also sometimes closer to turquoise or aquamarine.

Adjective

  1. Of a greenish-blue colour.
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