Color Names

Tanager Turquoise

Pastel wings of a tropical bird, reflected in a pale turquoise lake.

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Tanager Turquoise is a pastel blue, close to turquoise.

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

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Tanager Turquoise

Tanager

The tanagers comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes. The family has a Neotropical distribution and is the second-largest family of birds. It represents about 4% of all avian species and 12% of the Neotropical birds.

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Turquoise

Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gemstone for millennia due to its hue.

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Turquoise (color)

Turquoise is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.

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tanager

Noun

  1. Any of numerous species of often colorful passerine birds that inhabit New World forests within the family Thraupidae.
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turquoise

Noun

  1. A sky-blue, greenish-blue, or greenish-gray semi-precious gemstone.
  2. A pale greenish-blue colour, like that of the gemstone.

Adjective

  1. Made of turquoise (the gemstone).
  2. Having a pale greenish-blue colour.
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