Teal - Teal in Human Culture

Teal in Human Culture

• Currency
  • The post-2004 redesigned version of the United States $100 bill features teal as its primary background color.
  • The 25 Czechoslovak koruna banknote issued in 1958 and again in 1961 by the Czechoslovak Finance Ministry has teal blue as its predominant color.

• Design
  • Various tones of the color teal are used in fashion, interior design, industrial design, graphic design and web design.

• Movies
  • Teal (and blue) with orange are frequently used with digital color casting in movies, aiming for a more dynamic and contrast-rich image.

• Music
  • The DCI drum corp, Teal Sound uses teal as its primary color and obviously as part of its name which has become an icon of the group.

• Religion
  • There is a supplement to the regular Unitarian Universalist English hymnal (the cover of which is colored slate gray) called the teal hymnal, which consists of hymns in Spanish. It was first introduced in 2005 and greatly expanded in 2009.
  • The Intercessors of the Lamb, a Roman Catholic lay ecclesial movement, wears as its habit a teal scapular, which symbolizes the community's role as intercessors between heaven (blue) and earth (green).

• Sports
  • The Port Adelaide Football Club uses teal as one of its major colors. Its main colors are black with teal and white as its minor colors. It is the only team in the Australian Football League to use teal.
  • The San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League use teal as their main color. Their American Hockey League farm team Worcester Sharks also play in teal. The Sharks are generally regarded as being the first team to make the color teal popular in sports.
  • The Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League use teal as their primary color. The Miami Dolphins use a teal-like color called "aqua green".
  • The Detroit Pistons used teal as one of their primary colors from 1996 to 2001.
  • The Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association used to have teal as their primary color (in 2008, they changed to Creole blue).
  • The Penrith Panthers from the Australian National Rugby League use teal for their alternative strip.
  • Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners use "northwest green" as a secondary color, this is not to be confused with teal as it is more of a dark cyan.
  • The Liverpool Football Club had a teal 3rd kit shirt for the 2008/09 season.
  • The University of North Carolina at Wilmington Seahawks use teal as one of their major colors.

• Violence against women
  • Teal is the color of Sexual Violence Awareness.