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Printer’s cyan is a color in the vicinity of #00A2CC, which is not at all close to #55FFFF.

Using the name “cyan” for the latter is very confusing. I would strongly advise against it.

If you want you can use names like “bluish green”, “greenish blue”, or “blue–green” to stay out of trouble.

If you have a blue–green color, maybe slightly on the greenish side, “teal” is a pretty safe name: people won’t misinterpret what you mean. The name “teal” can represent a quite large generic range of colors.




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