Spring green (color)
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Spring green is a color that is the color on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. It corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. Spring green is a pure chroma on the color wheel. In HSV colour space, spring green has a hue of 150°.
The complementary color of spring green is Rose.
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[edit] Spring green
| Spring green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00FF7F | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 127) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (150°, 100%, 100%) |
| Source | X11[1] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the color spring green.
Spring green is a web color.
The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766. [2]
[edit] Medium spring green
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| Hex triplet | #00FA9A | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 250, 154) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (150°, 97%, 97%) |
| Source | X11[1] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the color medium spring green.
Medium spring green is a web color. It is close to but not right on the color wheel and it is a little bit closer to green than to cyan.
[edit] Shades of spring green color comparison chart
- SPRING GREEN (web color) (Hex: #00FF7F) (RGB: 0, 255, 8=127)
- Medium Spring Green (web color) (Hex: #00FA9A) (RGB: 0, 250, 154)
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[edit] Spring green in human culture
- Spring green brings to mind the well watered vegetation of early spring, being a combination of cyan, the color of water, and green, the color of plants.
- The colors spring green and black represent the holiday of Walpurgis night (Beltane eve), which, being on the diametrically opposite side of the wheel of the year from Halloween (Samhain eve) , is celebrated like Halloween in Continental Europe and especially Germany (The colors orange and black represent Halloween.).
[edit] References
- ^ a b W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Color Sample of Spring Green: Page 59 Plate 18 Color Sample J7 (Note: Before the invention of the web color spring green in the 1990s, Spring Green was thought of as a light green tinted toward the yellow--this color is now called spring bud and it is the color that is shown in the color sample in Maerz and Paul as Spring Green, instead of the pure spectrum web color spring green halfway between green and cyan shown above that is now regarded as the color spring green.)
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