Chartreuse (color)
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Traditional chartreuse (#DFFF00)
Web color chartreuse (#7FFF00)
Chartreuse (pronounced /ʃɑrˈtruːz/, /ʃɑrˈtruːs/; French IPA: [ʃarˈtʁɶz]) (the web color) is a color halfway between green and yellow that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764; whereas chartreuse (the traditional color) is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green that was named because of its resemblance to the yellow color of one of the French liqueurs called yellow chartreuse, introduced in 1838.[1]
The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow.
A Crayola crayon named Chartreuse was created in 1972, but it was the incorrect color, a red-orange shade. It was renamed Atomic Tangerine in 1990 (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).
The complementary (opposite) color of (the web color) chartreuse on the HSV color wheel is violet. Chartreuse is the most visible color to the human eye.[2]
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[edit] Chartreuse (web color) (chartreuse green)
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| Hex triplet | #7FFF00 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (127, 255, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (90°, 100%, 100%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the web color chartreuse.
The term chartreuse was first used to refer to this color (the color halfway between green and yellow) when the X11 web colors were invented in the mid-1990s. Before that, this color was called yellow-green.[citation needed]
[edit] Chartreuse (traditional) (chartreuse yellow)
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| Hex triplet | #DFFF00 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (223, 255, 0) |
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The color names chartreuse and chartreuse yellow traditionally refer to much more yellowish colors than the web color chartreuse.
The first recorded use of chartreuse as a color name in English was in 1892 (to refer to this, the traditional color chartreuse).[3]
[edit] Variations of chartreuse
[edit] Green-yellow
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| Hex triplet | #ADFF2F | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (173, 255, 47) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (84°, 100%, 67%) |
| Source | X11[4] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the web color green-yellow, a light tint of chartreuse.
[edit] Lawn green
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| Hex triplet | #7CFC00 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (124, 252, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (90°, 98%, 48%) |
| Source | X11 | |
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Displayed at right is the web color lawn green, a bright tint of chartreuse.
[edit] Yellow-green
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| Hex triplet | #9ACD32 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (154, 205, 50) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (90°, 60%, 54%) |
| Source | X11 | |
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Displayed at right is the web color yellow-green, a dull medium shade of chartreuse.
Before the X11 web colors were invented in the mid-1990s, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (i.e., the color halfway between yellow and green on the color wheel), shown above. Now, the term yellow-green is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.
[edit] Chartreuse in human culture
Note: Any of these references to the color chartreuse made in artistic creations produced before the mid 1990s refer to the traditional color chartreuse. Works produced since the mid 1990s may be referring to either the traditional color chartreuse or the web color chartreuse, depending on the context.
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- Chartreuse (web color) represents green chartreuse liqueur; Chartreuse (traditional) represents yellow chartreuse liqueur.[1]
- The Volkswagen Type 2 Transporter Westfalia model was well known for mostly being produced in the chartreuse color. The vehicle is referenced in the song Convoy (see below).
- Alhambra water (a brand delivered mainly in Northern California since 1902) and the other brands of bottled water delivered by the Sparkletts Water Company are delivered in chartreuse (web color) colored trucks. [1]
- It was announced over the radio in the early 1990's as part of a trivia clip that the third color that can be emitted by a red/green bi-color LED is officially known as chartreuse.[citation needed] The third color is now more correctly referred to as amber. This was a mistake most likely helped by the incorrectly labeled Crayola crayon that is now labeled Atomic Tangerine, an amber-like color (see the top of this article for more Crayola information).
- The early green LED's are now sometimes called chartreuse to distinguish them from more-modern, darker-green LED's.[5]
- The color of the Autobot medic Ratchet in the live action 2007 Transformers film is chartreuse.[6]
- The 1960 Universal film Chartroose Caboose featured a chartreuse colored train car. [7]
- Since about 1973, a sort of fluorescent chartreuse (traditional) color has been adopted as the color of fire engines in parts of the United States and elsewhere. The reason behind this is that chartreuse fire engines are more visible on the streets than the traditional red fire engines, especially at night (the reason for this is the Purkinje Effect, i.e., the cones do not function as efficiently in dim light, so red objects appear to be black). In Australia and New Zealand this form of chartreuse yellow is also known as "ACT Yellow" as this is the color of the fire engines in the Australian Capital Territory.
- The Chartreuse Mountains are located north of Grenoble, France.
- La Chartreuse de Parme (English: The Charterhouse of Parma) is a famous novel by 19th century French writer Stendhal.
- The Girl from the Chartreuse is a book by Pierre Péju, and also the title of the adapted film by Jean-Pierre Denis.
- In "Convoy", a 1975 song by C.W. McCall, "11 long-haired friends of Jesus" were said to have taken part in the eponymous convoy in a "...chartreuse microbus".
- The Grande Chartreuse is a Catholic monastery in the Chartreuse mountains and the mother house of the Carthusian monks. The Grand Chartreuse is also the origin of Chartreuse liqueur, after which both yellow and green chartreuse colors are named.
- The Chartroose Caboose is a restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri that specializes in Philadelphia steak sandwiches. [8]
- Public utility workers in most cities wear clothing colored fluorescent traditional chartreuse (officially called neon yellow) for safety purposes when working on the street. This color is also worn by bicyclists for safety purposes.
- Chartreuse (traditional) is one of the official colors of the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association.
- The Chartreuse level is a hydroponics section in the game No One Lives Forever, in the Low Earth Orbit mission. [9]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Green Chartreuse and Yellow Chartreuse. Chartreuse Liqueurs. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- ^ Nine Brain Quirks You Didn't Realize You Had. Lifehack.org. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ Green LED info wanted -- pure green, not yellow-green.. Ask MetaFilter. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
- ^ "The Making Of The Transformers Movie - Production Design: The Robots, The Vehicles, The Sets", ENI, 2007-06-15. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
- ^ N.Y. Times Overview of the film Chartroose Caboose:
- ^ Website of restaurant the Chartroose Caboose:
- ^ No One Lives Forever Game Guide
