Green or yellow and cyan; in the RGB color model, used on television and computer screens, it is one of the additive primary colors, along with red and blue, which are mixed in different combinations to create all other colors. On the HSV color wheel, also known as the , the complement of green is magenta; that is, a color corresponding to an equal mixture of red and blue light (one of the purples). On a traditional color wheel, based on subtractive color, the complementary color to green is considered to be red. In additive color devices such as computer displays
Blue–green distinction in language in classical Hebrew, can mean both green and yellow, giving rise to such expressions as (pronounced ), "leek green", to specify green to the exclusion of yellow. Like Russian and Italian, Hebrew has a separate name for light blue (, "t'khelet")—the color of the sky and of fringes on the ritual garment "Tzitzit". This color has special symbolic significance in Judaism and Jewish culture. Albanian has two major words for "blue": "kaltër" refers to a light blue, such as that of the sky, but it is derived from Vulgar Latin "calthinus", itself derived from "caltha", a loan from Ancient Greek