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Windows · 1985 · Proprietary

Windows 1.0

Windows 1.0 (1985) was Microsoft's first graphical shell, running tiled windows over MS-DOS. Limited to a fixed hardware palette, it couldn't display its signature desktop green directly — so it dithered it, tiling 8×8 blocks of bright green with 4×4 patches of cyan to blend a softer shade the hardware couldn't name. Depending on how you average that pattern, the result lands near #57ff81 (a simple pixel average) or #57ff9a (averaged in linear light, gamma-corrected).

LaterWindows 2.0
Preview#57ff81
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Dithered Green (Averaged)
#57ff81
Dithered Green (Gamma-Corrected)
#57ff9a
Phosphor Green
#57ff57
Aqua
#57ffff
Dithered Green (Averaged)DEFAULT
The Windows 1.0 desktop. There was no single green for it in the hardware palette, so the desktop was dithered — 8×8 blocks of green (#57ff57) with a 4×4 patch of cyan (#57ffff) inside each, 25% cyan by area. This is the conventional pixel average of that pattern; averaging in linear light instead gives the gamma-corrected #57ff9a.
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HEX#57ff81Copy
RGB87, 255, 129Copy
HSL135° 100% 67%Copy
CMYK66% 0% 49% 0%Copy
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Similar colors elsewhere

closest to Dithered Green (Averaged) · #57ff81
94% match
Spring Green
#00ff80
93% match
Light Green
#80ff80
84% match
Emerald
#00ff40

Colors of the same era

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Workbench Bluesame year
Amiga Workbench 1.x
1985 · Amiga
Aqua2 yr later
Windows 2.0
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