The name ‘teal’ originates from the Eurasian Teal, a duck related to the common mallard, which has a stripe on its head in a similar shade. The hue is also on the cyan spectrum, a scale of blue and green subtractive colours, generated when light filters through overlapping primary colours.
Teal appears on the colour wheel between blue and green, so its boundaries are blurred, and numerous interpretations of it exist, from light to dark. ‘Teal is a member of the cyan, or green-blue group, and is widely associated with positivity, happiness, and stability,’ explains Helen Shaw, director of marketing at Benjamin Moore.
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