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This article is about notable tints and shades of the color green. These various colors are shown below.
Asparagus
Asparagus is a shade of green and is named after the vegetable.
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This article is about notable tints and shades of the color green. These various colors are shown below.
Green in nature
Green is common in nature, especially in plants. Many plants are green mainly because of a complex chemical known as chlorophyll which is involved in photosynthesis. Many shades of green have been named after plants or are related to plants.
Asparagus
Asparagus is a shade of green and is named after the vegetable. Crayola created this color in 1993 as one of the 16 Name The Color Contest.
Fern green
Fern green is a color that resembles ferns. A Crayola crayon named Fern was created in 1998, which is a lighter shade of the color shown at right.
Forest green
Forest green refers to a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest. This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for web site color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space).
Forest green is used to represent deciduous forest on maps depicting natural vegetation. Forest green may be used to represent the Green movement, especially in graphic design for environmental literature regarding issues having to do with forest conservation.
Forest green is one of the school colors of the Cass Technical High School, and The Westminster Schools.
Forest green is one of the team colors of the Forest Green Rovers F.C., an English football (soccer) club. It is also found on the team colors of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, as related to the flag of Saskatchewan.
Gray-asparagus
Gray-asparagus or gray-green is a mix of the colors gray and asparagus.
Jungle green
Displayed at right is the color jungle green.
The specific shade of color jungle green called "jungle green" by Crayola was formulated by Crayola in 1990.
The first recorded use of jungle green as a color name in English was in 1926.
The colors jungle green or tropical rain forest are often used by cartographers to represent the tropical rain forest on a natural vegetation map. The colors jungle green and tropical rain forest are used by environmental activists who conduct save the rain forest campaigns on their posters to publicize their work. In the United States Army, jungle green is the color used for the uniforms and berets of the United States Army Special Forces or "Green Berets". (The shade of jungle green used in the uniforms and berets of the U.S. Army Green Berets is closely equivalent to the color shown above as deep jungle green.) In the Commonwealth of Nations jungle green is the color of the combat or working uniform worn in the Far East and in parts of Africa. The uniform was often called "jaygees" in Australia.
Moss green
Moss green is a shade of green. It is normally a hazy gray-green, close to an earthtone.
Myrtle
Myrtle is a variety of the color green. It is immoderately dark, slightly more so than the color spinach.
Myrtle the official designation of the green stripes on Waterloo Rugby Club's shirts, and the green of Hunslet Hawks Rugby League Club.
Pine green
Pine green is a rich shade of spring green that resembles the color of pine trees. It is an official Crayola color (since 1949) that is this exact shade in the Crayola crayon, but in the markers, it's known as crocodile green.
The color pine green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a coniferous forest. The color pine green was originally known as pine tree. The first recorded use of pine tree as a color name in English was in 1923. The color pine green is used to advertise Christmas trees, represent coniferous forests on a maps depicting natural vegetation on maps, and on aerosol cans of pine-scented room deodorizer.
Sap green
Sap green is a green pigment that was traditionally made of ripe buckthorn berries. However, modern colors marketed under this name are usually a blend of other pigments, commonly with a basis of Phthalocyanine Green G.
Shamrock green (Irish green)
Shamrock green is the color of green used in the flag of Ireland, and therefore it is also called Irish green. It represents the color of Shamrocks in what is poetically called the "Emerald Isle" for its emerald-colored vegetation. This green is legally defined as Pantone 347.
It is customary in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the United States to wear this shade of green, or any shade of green that one prefers, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, even if one is not of Irish descent. The Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association use this shade for their uniforms, logos and other memorabilia.
Tea green
Tea green is a light shade of green. It is a representation of the color of brewed green tea, i.e., the color of the hot green tea after the green tea leaves have been brewed in boiling water.
This color is used on boxes of green tea.
Computer web color greens
In X11
The color displayed at right is the brightest possible green that can be reproduced on a computer screen, and is the color named green in X11. It is one of the three primary colors used in the RGB color space along with red and blue.
This color is also called color wheel green. It is at precisely 120 degrees on the HSV color wheel. Its complementary color is magenta.
Green takes up a large portion of the CIE chromaticity diagram because it is in the central area of human color perception.
In HTML/CSS
The darker shade of green shown at the right is the color named green in HTML/CSS color standard. It is the color called green, low green or dark green in many of the older 8-bit computer palettes.
Other notable green colors
Army green
Displayed at right is the color army green.
The color army green has been the color of the U.S. Army dress uniform since 1955; however, it is due to be phased out and replaced by a blue uniform in 2014. The new blue uniform is derived from the shade of blue used for the United States Army in the U.S. Revolutionary War and the U.S. Civil War. The color army green has been adopted by the armies of many other nations of the world.
Bright green
Displayed at right is the color bright green. Bright green is a bright shade of green. It is on the color wheel approximately one-third of the way between chartreuse green and bright harlequin (color #3FFF00) (closer to chartreuse green than to bright harlequin). Bright green represents a visual stimulus of 556 nanometers on the visual spectrum as measured on the CIE chromaticity diagram. The X11 color green is somewhat similar to bright green, with a hex triplet of 00FF00, compared to bright green's triplet of 66FF00.
The color bright green may be used to represent bright green environmentalism or the Viridian design movement.
Brunswick green
Brunswick green is a common name for green pigments made from copper compounds, although the name has also been used for other formulations that produce a similar hue, such as mixtures of chrome yellow and Prussian blue. The pigment is named after Braunschweig, Germany (also known as Brunswick in English) where it was first manufactured. It is a deep, dark green, which may vary from intense to very dark, almost black.
"Deep Brunswick green" is commonly recognized as part of the British racing green spectrum, the national auto racing color of the United Kingdom. A similar color, also called "Brunswick green", was the official color for passenger locomotives of the nationalized British Railways. A similar—but slightly brighter—shade was used by the Great Western Railway.
The color used by the Pennsylvania Railroad for locomotives was often called "Brunswick green", but officially was termed Dark Green Locomotive Enamel (DGLE). This was a shade of green so dark as to be almost black, but which turned greener with age and weathering as the copper compounds further oxidized. See PRR equipment colors and painting for more details.
Celadon
Celadon (pronounced ) is a color that is a pale tint of spring green.
Celadon colored pottery is a specific style of pottery produced in East Asia. It is normally associated with a pale sea-green pigment though the style originally was made with much darker pigments. The pale green pigment came from the artisans who used specific clays and potting techniques to create the style now associated with the name. Chemically, celadon is formed by combining chromium oxide, cadmium yellow, and titanium-zinc white. It was most commonly used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese art and spread to the other Asian cultures. Celadon, as it is known by the west, or Gingci, is an ancient type of Chinese glaze that was particularly favoured by the Song court. These pots have blue-green glazes and are made in elegant shapes and were produced in kilns from all over China. Korean celadon pottery has been described by ancient Chinese artisans as having a quiet elegance whose color is "beyond description," in that it must be experienced to be understood, and its simplicity of form and style has been compared to the spirit of Zen Buddhism.
Emerald
An emerald color is a shade of green that is particularly light and bright, with a faint bluish cast. The name derives from the typical appearance of the gemstone emerald.
Ireland is sometimes referred to as the Emerald Isle due to its lush greenery. Seattle is sometimes referred to as the Emerald City, because its abundant rainfall creates lush vegetation. "Emerald City", from the fictional story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is a city where everything from food to people are emerald green. However, it is revealed at the end of the story that everything in the city is normal colored, but the glasses everyone wears are emerald tinted. The Green Zone in Baghdad is sometimes ironically and cynically referred to as The Emerald City. People with emerald auras are said to be "capable of versatility, ingenuity, and resourcefulness, applied unselfishly". The Emerald Buddha is a figurine of the sitting Buddha, made of green jade (rather than emerald), clothed in gold, and about 45 cm tall. It is kept in the Chapel of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
Feldgrau
Feldgrau (field grey) was the color of the field uniform of the German Army from late 1907 until 1945, and of some post-war uniforms of the West German Bundeswehr and the East German NVA armies. Metaphorically, Feldgrau used to refer to the armies of Germany (the Imperial German Army and the Heer [army] component of the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht).
The word feldgrau means "field grey", and by World War I the color was a light grey-green, though there is no specific color, rather a color range of greys to browns, that was one of the first standardized uniforms suitable to the age of smokeless gun powder. Formerly, the Germans wore a Prussian blue shade similar to that of the French.
Sweden used a very similar color for infantry uniforms, for example the grey m/1923 and later on grey-green as the German ones. The last uniform to use the color was the woollen m/1959 winter uniform.
Green-yellow
Green-yellow is a mixture of the colors green and yellow. It is a web color. It is a light tint of chartreuse.
Green-yellow (although not in this exact formulation) is one of the colors of the color wheel in the Munsell color system.
Green-yellow is an official Crayola crayon color, created in 1949, although the color of the actual crayon with this name is much more yellow than the color shown here.
The Crayola crayon color yellow-green is a closer match to this color.
Green-yellow is at the direct middle of the light spectrum visible to the human eye, and as such it is the color that is most eye catching to humans. For this reason many emergency vehicles and uniforms exhibit green-yellow.
Harlequin
Harlequin is a color described as located between green and yellow (closer to green than to yellow) on the pigment color wheel. On color plate 17 in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (see reference below), the color harlequin is shown as being a highly saturated color at a position about 3/4 of the way between green and yellow (closer to green than to yellow).
The first recorded use of harlequin as a color name in English was in 1923.
Harlequin is also an adjective used to describe something that is colored in a pattern, usually a diamond shaped pattern. similar to the dress traditionally associated to Harlequins. Similarly, it can mean anything multicolored or prismatic, such as opals or other precious gems which are highly variegated in color & hue.
Other sources portray a color called Harlequin green as being a color close to spring green:
Hunter green
Hunter green is a color that is a representation of the color worn by hunters in the 19th century. Most hunters began wearing the color olive drab instead of hunter green about the beginning of the 20th century. Today, some hunters still wear hunter green clothes or hunter green bandanas.
At right is displayed the color hunter green.
The first recorded use of hunter green as a color name in English was in 1892.
The source of this color is the following website:
India green
India green is the color of the lower band of the Indian National Flag, represents fertility and prosperity. In previous renditions of the flag, the green stood for the Muslims of India. See Flag of India.
Islamic green
Islamic green is the shade of green used in the Flag of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Green symbolizes Islam because the tribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad had a green banner and because green represented paradise (the Persian word for garden) to desert dwelling bedouin tribes when they gathered at an oasis.
Jade
Jade is a saturated, slightly bluish green. The name comes from the gemstone called jade, although the stone varies widely in hue.
In Chinese culture, if one wishes to express one's love for someone, one gives them something made of the gemstone jade or an object that is colored jade.
Kelly green
Kelly green is a shade of green that is popular in Ireland and among most Irish-Americans as well as most people of Irish ancestry wherever they reside.
The name kelly green for the color originated in Ireland. The name derives from the fact that the first name Kelly, as well as the color green, are both popular in Ireland. The first recorded use of the term kelly green as a color name in English was in 1935.
Kelly green is a school color for the Marshall University Thundering Herd, and several other colleges and high schools.
Until 1995, it was used as a primary color by the Oakland Athletics. Afterward, it was replaced by hunter green.
It was used as the primary color of the Philadelphia Eagles until 1995; it was replaced with "midnight green" (Hex triplet: #003b48) for the 1996 season.
Midnight green
Midnight green (sometimes called eagle green) is the official primary color of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.
In actuality, the color midnight green is a dark shade of cyan. This can be readily ascertained by noting the fact that this color’s red value is zero and its green and blue values are almost equal, thereby making it a shade of cyan.
Office green
The conservative shade of green shown at right, office green, was the original color designated as "green" for computer displays in the 1980s. It was apparently chosen because it is the color of the green-colored pencils used by accountants and the color of green office file cabinets.
Persian green
Persian green is a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran.
Other colors associated with Persia include Persian red and Persian blue. The color Persian green is named from the green color of some Persian pottery and is a representation of the color of the mineral malachite. It is a popular color in Iran because the color green symbolizes Islam. The first recorded use of Persian green as a color name in English was in 1892. This color is also known as "Teal".
Pigment green
Pigment green, also called grass green, is the color green that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) cyan and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions.
Psychedelic art made people used to brighter colors of green, and pigment colors or colored pencils called "true green" are produced which approximate (with much less brightness that is possible on a computer screen) the electric X11 green shown above.
Rifle green
Rifle green is a particular shade of dark green. It is so named from the distinctive color of the uniform of rifle regiments (a form of light infantry) of a number of European armies, and is still used as such by rifle regiments in many Commonwealth armies, such as The Rifles and Royal Gurkha Rifles of the British Army.
Rifle green was originally adopted by rifle regiments in the 18th Century. As the traditional role of riflemen was that of marksmen and skirmishers who attacked behind the cover of trees, a dark green uniform was adopted as an early form of camouflage, as opposed to the colorful uniforms worn by other soldiers of the period.
Rifle green was the official uniform color of the Canadian Forces (CF) after unification; it was thereafter generally referred to as "CF green"; indeed, the Service Dress uniform of the day was referred to as "CF greens". After the introduction of the Distinct Environmental Uniform (DEU), rifle green remained as the uniform color of the winter Land Environment DEU; a short-lived tan uniform was worn in summer. After the demise of the tans, the rifle green DEU was worn year-round.
Rifle green is 19-0419 TPX in the Pantone palette, or roughly 414833h in the sRGB color space.
Sea green
Sea green is a shade of light bluish green that resembles the sea floor as seen from the surface.
Sea green is notable for being the emblematic color of the Levellers party in the politics of 1640s England. Leveller supporters would wear a sea-green ribbon, in a similar manner to the present-day red AIDS awareness ribbon.
Green in human culture
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