Windows · 1987 · Proprietary

Windows 2.0

Similarly to Windows 1.0, the pure cyan emitted by Windows 2.0 might have looked completely different in 1987 - depending on the hardware used. But on the software side, the default background of Windows 2.0 was "cyan" in the EGA/VGA palette.

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Aqua

#57ffff

AquaDEFAULT

KNOWN USES2 palettes · 1985–1987

19851987

First in Windows 1.0, 1985. Also in 1 other palette.

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HEX#57ffffCopy

RGB87, 255, 255Copy

HSL180° 100% 67%Copy

CMYK66% 0% 0% 0%Copy

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Similar colors elsewhere

closest to Aqua · #57ffff

Colors of the same era

platforms released around 1987 · popular defaults

Workbench Blue2 yr earlier

Amiga Workbench 1.x ↗

1985 · Amiga

Dithered Green (Averaged)2 yr earlier

Windows 1.0 ↗

1985 · Windows

Moonstone2 yr later

SunOS / Solaris (OpenWindows) ↗

1989 · Solaris

Workbench Gray3 yr later

Amiga Workbench 2.0 ↗