Chartreuse (color)

Chartreuse (UK: /ʃɑːˈtrɜːz/, US: /ʃɑːrˈtruːz/ or /ʃɑːrˈtruːs/;^[1] French pronunciation: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) (the web color) is a color halfway between yellow and green that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green that was named because of its resemblance to the color of one of the French liqueurs called yellow chartreuse, introduced in 1838.^[2]

Contents 1 Chartreuse (web color) 2 Chartreuse yellow 3 Variations of chartreuse 3.1 Green-yellow 3.2 Lawn green 3.3 Pistachio 3.4 Yellow-green 3.5 Apple green 3.6 Olive 3.7 Olive drab 3.8 Camouflage green 3.9 Dark olive green 4 Nature 5 Chartreuse in popular culture 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

Chartreuse (web color)

Chartreuse (web color)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#7FFF00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(127, 255, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(90°, 100%, 100[3]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color chartreuse.

The term chartreuse was first used to refer to "a pale apple-green" in 1884.^[4] This was codified to refer to this brighter color when the X11 colors were formulated in 1987; by the early 1990s, they became known as the X11 web colors. The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow. It is one of the tertiary colors of the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel. Another name for this color is chartreuse green.^[5]

Chartreuse yellow

Chartreuse (traditional)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#DFFF00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(223, 255, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(68°, 100%, 100[6]%)
Source		Maerz and Paul [7]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color name chartreuse yellow , also known as chartreuse (traditional) or traditional chartreuse, refers to the much more yellowish tone of chartreuse than the web color "chartreuse" that was generally regarded as "chartreuse" (and still is regarded as such by many) before the X11 color chartreuse (shown above) was formulated in 1987.

The first recorded use of chartreuse (meaning the color that is now called chartreuse yellow) in English was in 1892.^[8]

Variations of chartreuse

Green-yellow

Green-Yellow
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#ADFF2F
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(173, 255, 47)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(84°, 100%, 67%)
Source		X11[9]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color green-yellow, a light tint of chartreuse.

Lawn green

Lawn Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#7CFC00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(124, 252, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(90°, 98%, 48%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color lawn green, a bright tint of chartreuse.

Pistachio

Pistachio
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#93C572
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(147, 197, 114)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(96°, 42%, 77[10]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color pistachio, also called pistachio green, a representation of the color of the interior meat of a pistachio nut. It is also a representation of the color of pistachio ice cream (one of the flavors of ice cream in spumoni), and of pistachio pudding.

The first recorded use of pistachio green as a color name in English was in 1789.^[11]

Source of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Pistachio Green (Color Sample #135).

Yellow-green

Yellow-Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#9ACD32
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(154, 205, 50)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(90°, 60%, 54%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color yellow-green, a dull medium shade of chartreuse.

Before the X11 colors were formulated in 1987, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (chartreuse green), shown above. Now, the term "yellow-green" is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.

Apple green

Apple Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#8DB600
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(141, 182, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(74°, 100%, 71[12]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color apple green, a representation of the color of the outer skin of a green apple.

The first recorded use of apple green as a color name in English was in 1648.^[13]

Source of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Apple Green (Color Sample #115).

Olive

Olive
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#808000
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(128, 128, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(60°, 100%, 50[14]%)
Source		X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Olive is a dark shade of yellow typically seen on green olives. It can be formed by adding a little black to yellow dye or paint. As a color word in the English language, it is unexpectedly old, appearing in late Middle English. Shaded toward green, it becomes olive drab. Olive can also be referred to as dark yellow. That the color olive is a shade of yellow can readily be ascertained by inspecting its hex code—the red and green values are equal, with no blue value, signifying a shade of yellow.

Sometimes people of what in the early 20th century was called the Mediterranean subrace of the Caucasian race are described as being "olive-skinned", to denote shades of medium toned white skin that is darker than the average color for Caucasians, such as many people from southern Italy. In religion, olive is sometimes used as a church color during Ordinary Time. Shades of olive, such as olive drab, are frequently used for camouflage, or by the military in general. The complementary color of olive is light blue.

Olive drab

Olive Drab
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#6B8E23
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(107, 142, 35)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(80°, 75%, 56%)
Source		X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Olive drab is the color olive shaded toward a greener color.

The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892.^[15]

Olive drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for U.S. GIs and military vehicles during World War II. U.S. soldiers often referred to their uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. The color used at the beginning of the war by the US Army was officially called Olive Drab #3, which was replaced by the darker Olive Drab #7 by 1944, and which was again replaced by Olive Green 107 or OG-107 in 1952 and continued as the official uniform color for combat fatigues through the Vietnam War, until replaced by Engineer Research & Development Laboratories (ERDL) camouflage uniforms. The ERDL uniforms were then replaced by M81 woodland camo fatigues as the primary US uniform scheme in the 1980s, and still retain olive drab as one of the color swatches in the pattern.

As a solid color, it is not as effective for camouflage as multiple-color camo schemes (i.e. US Army Combat Uniform, Tigerstripe, MARPAT, Multicam, etc.), though it is still used by the U.S. military to color webbing and accessories. The military refers to the color as Olive Green 107, or more commonly OG 107.^[16] There are very few countries still issuing uni-color Olive Drab uniforms, Israel, India, Cuba, and Austria being the exceptions.

In the American novel A Separate Peace, Finny said to Gene, "...and in these times of war, we all see olivine drab, and we all know it is the patriotic color. All others aren't about the war; they aren't patriotic."

The color is currently defined by the FS-595 paint standard.^[17][18]

Camouflage green

Camouflage green is a color which resembles the gray-green color often used by the military and hunters to camouflage themselves. Thus, this color may often be known as military green and is related to hunter green.

Dark olive green

Dark Olive Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#556B2F
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(85, 107, 47)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(82°, 56%, 42[19]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color dark olive green.

Nature

• Yellow-green alga, also called xanthophytes, is a class of algae in the Heterokontophyta division. Most live in freshwater, but some are found in marine and soil habitats. They vary from single-celled flagellates to simple colonial and filamentous forms. Unlike other heterokonts, yellow-green algae's chloroplasts do not contain fucoxanthin, which is why they have a lighter color.

Chartreuse in popular culture

Alcoholic beverages

• Chartreuse represents green chartreuse liqueur; Chartreuse yellow represents yellow chartreuse liqueur.^[2]

Electronics

• The early green LEDs are now sometimes called chartreuse to distinguish them from more-modern, deeper-green LEDs.^[20]

Film

• Chartreuse green is the color of the Autobot medic Ratchet in the live action 2007 Transformers film.^[21]
• The 1960 Universal film Chartroose Caboose featured a "bright green" colored train car.^[22]

Firefighting

• Since about 1973, a sort of fluorescent chartreuse yellow 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. Some airport fire vehicles are using this color over traditional red. The use of chartreuse fire engines began in the 1970s, when New York ophthalmologist Stephen Solomon produced research claiming that sparkling bright lime-yellow paint would boost the visibility of emergency vehicles.^[23][24]

Vexillology

• When Bharatpur was a princely state, it was the only political entity ever to have a chartreuse yellow colored flag.^[25]

Video games

• The Chartreuse Hall is a hydroponics section in the game No One Lives Forever, in the Low Earth Orbit mission.^[26]

See also

• Lime (color)
• List of colors

References

External links

• Chartreuse Trivia
• #DFFF00

Shades of green
Apple green	Asparagus	Bright green	Chartreuse	Dark olive green	Dark spring green	Dartmouth green	Electric green	Fern green	Forest green
Green	Green-yellow	Harlequin	Honeydew	Hunter green	India green	Islamic green	Jungle green	Lawn green	Lime
Lime green	Mantis	Mint	Mint cream	Office green	Olive	Olive drab	Pakistan green	Paris Green	Persian green
Phthalo green	Pigment green	Pine green	Pistachio	Sea green	Shamrock green	Spring bud	Spring green	Teal	Yellow-green
The samples shown above are only indicative.

Shades of yellow
Amber	Apricot	Beige	Buff	Cream	Dark goldenrod	Ecru	Gold	Gold (metallic)	Goldenrod
Green-yellow	Jasmine	Jonquil	Khaki	Lemon chiffon	Lime	Lion	Maize	Mikado yellow	Naples yellow
Navajo white	Olive	Papaya whip	Saffron	School bus yellow	Selective yellow	Stil de grain yellow	Sunglow	Vanilla	Yellow
The samples shown above are only indicative.