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Windows · 1985 · Proprietary

Windows 1.0

When looking at screenshots of Windows 1.0, you can see the dithered green as defined as default here. However, the actual color representation was highly dependent on the graphics adapter and also the CRT used. That means, what looks like a very bright cyan-green is the pure software side with todays sRGB faithfulness and quite possibly differs vastly from how it looked back in the day - and it might also have differed then, depending on the hardware used. Nevertheless, this is how it would look today, when emitting the same color on modern hardware.

LaterWindows 2.0
Preview#57ffff
All colors4 · click to preview
Dithered Green (Averaged)
#57ff81
Dithered Green (Gamma-Corrected)
#57ff9a
Phosphor Green
#57ff57
Aqua
#57ffff
Aqua
One of the two colors the Windows 1.0 desktop was dithered from — the cyan filling a 4×4 patch inside each 8×8 green block (25% by area).
KNOWN USES2 palettes · 1985–1987
19851987
First in Windows 1.0, 1985. Also in 1 other palette.
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COLOR VALUES · CLICK TO COPY
HEX#57ffffCopy
RGB87, 255, 255Copy
HSL180° 100% 67%Copy
CMYK66% 0% 0% 0%Copy
View all 10 formats →

Similar colors elsewhere

closest to Aqua · #57ffff
95% match
Cyan
#00ffff
94% match
Light Cyan
#80ffff
79% match
Light Cyan
#c0ffff
79% match
Mint
#82ffc0

Colors of the same era

platforms released around 1985 · popular defaults
C64 Blue3 yr earlier
Commodore 64
1982 · Commodore
Workbench Bluesame year
Amiga Workbench 1.x
1985 · Amiga
Aqua2 yr later
Windows 2.0
1987 · Windows