Lime green is a color between yellow and green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is half way between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. Lime green is approximately the most visible color on the spectrum because it is corresponds to a wavelength near the peak of the photopic luminosity function.

At right is displayed the traditional color lime green. This color is usually called simply lime (since this was the color normally regarded as lime long before web colors were invented) in order to distinguish it from the web color lime (X11 Green) and web color lime green, shown below.

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