Help Cyan Through Her Identity Crisis

Cyan is a color, which looks like this. No, that's not "sky blue", "bright blue", "baby blue", "aqua", "blue", or even "green". That is cyan, and she is sick and tired of being confused with other colors. Cyan demands to be known!

What is cyan?

This color:
Approximately 490 nm wavelength (612,245 GHz frequency) of light
RGB=(0,255,255) or "00FFFF" in hexadecimal
HLS=(180.0,0.500,1.000)
The "C" in "CMYK" (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK)

Colors cyan is often confused with:

 Sky blue.................................  NOT 
 Baby blue................................  NOT 
 Bright blue..............................  NOT 
 Blue.....................................  NOT 
 Aqua (aquamarine)........................  NOT 
 Green....................................  NOT 

What can I do to help?

You can become a cyanite -- a person who believes that the color cyan should be called cyan and nothing else. (Not to be confused with cyanide, which is an exceptionally lethal toxin.)

How do I become a cyanite?

Simply place your right hand on the mouse and recite the following pledge:

I, <insert name here>, do hereby promise to refer to the color cyan by that, its one and only true name, and will, upon encountering persons whom incorrectly state her name, explain what she is truly called and insist that she be reffered to as cyan.

How can I show my appreciation for cyan?

By joining the Cyan Ribbon Campaign. Wear a cyan ribbon on special occasions, in public, or all the time -- whenever the spirit moves you. Or you can put a cyan ribbon, such as the one shown below, on your home page and link it to this page, to show the world that you support the color cyan. (SHIFT-click the image to download it; please don't use this address for the image, but download it and put it in your own directory instead.)

But how could I make a difference?

Oh, but you can! If cyanites like you and I spread the word to the far corners of the earth, we can enlighten the misinformed and truly make this planet a better, safer, happier place for the color cyan.

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