Spring green

For other uses, see Spring Green (disambiguation).

Spring green (#00FF7F)

Spring green is a color included on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram 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 color space, the expression of which is known as the RGB color wheel, spring green has a hue of 150°. Spring green is one of the tertiary colors on the RGB color wheel.

The complementary color of spring green is rose.

Spring Green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FF7F
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 255, 127)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 100%, 100^[1]%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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]

Variations of spring green

Mint cream

Mint cream

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F5FFFA
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(245, 255, 250)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 4%, 100%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color mint cream, a pale pastel tint of spring green.

The color mint cream is a representation of the color of the interior of an after dinner mint (which is disc shaped with mint flavored buttercream on the inside and a chocolate coating on the outside).

Honeydew

Honeydew

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F0FFF0
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(240, 255, 240)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 97%, 97%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color honeydew, a pastel tint of spring green.

The color honeydew is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a honeydew melon.

Aquamarine

Main article: Aquamarine (color)

Aquamarine

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#7FFFD4
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(127, 255, 212)
HSV (h, s, v)	(160°, 50%, 100^[3]%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Aquamarine is a color that is a pale bright tint of spring green toned toward cyan.

Magic mint

Magic mint

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#AAF0D1
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(170, 240, 209)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(29, 0, 13, 6)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 84%, 80%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color magic mint, a light tint of spring green.

The color mint green is a light tint of the color mint.

This is a Crayola color formulated in 1990 (later retired in 2003).

Medium spring green

Medium spring green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00FA9A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 250, 154)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(77, 0, 62, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 97%, 97%)
Source	X11^[4]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

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 closer to cyan than to green.

Cambridge blue

Main article: Cambridge blue

Cambridge blue

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#A3C1AD
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(163, 193, 173^[5])
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(16, 0, 11, 24)
HSV (h, s, v)	(140°, 16%, 76^[6]^[7]%)
Source
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Cambridge blue is the color commonly used by sports teams from Cambridge University.^[8]

This color is actually a medium tone of spring green. Spring green colors are colors with an h code (hue code) of between 135 and 165; this color has an h code of 140, putting it within the range of spring green colors on the RGB color wheel.

Caribbean green

Caribbean green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00CC99
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 204, 153)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(100, 0, 25, 20)
HSV (h, s, v)	(165°, 100%, 80%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color Caribbean green. This is a Crayola color formulated in 1997.

Mountain meadow

Mountain meadow

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#30BA8F
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(48, 186, 143)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(74, 0, 23, 27)
HSV (h, s, v)	(161°, 74%, 73^[9]%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color mountain meadow.

Mountain meadow is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1998.

Mint

Mint leaf

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#3EB489
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(62, 180, 137)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(66, 0, 24, 29)
HSV (h, s, v)	(158°, 66%, 71^[10]%)
Source	ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color mint, also known as mint leaf, is a representation of the color of mint. The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Mint Leaf (color sample #140):.

The first recorded use of mint as a color name in English was in 1920.^[11]

Medium sea green

Medium sea green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#3CB371
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(60, 179, 113)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 42%, 30%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color medium sea green, a medium shade of spring green.

Jungle green

Main article: Jungle green

Jungle green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#29AB87
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(41, 171, 135)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(50, 0, 50, 2)
HSV (h, s, v)	(120°, 80%, 70%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed on the right is the color jungle green. In 1990 Crayola named and formulated the specific tone of jungle green shown at right. The first recorded use of jungle green as a name of a color in the English language was in 1926.^[12]

Zomp

Zomp

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#39A78E
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(57, 167, 173)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(66, 0, 15, 35)
HSV (h, s, v)	(166°, 66%, 66^[13]%)
Source	Resene
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color zomp.

Zomp is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "zomp" was formulated in 2007.

Persian green

Persian green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#00A693
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 166, 147)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(80, 0, 22, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(135°, 75%, 60%)
Source	ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

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 gardens, nature, heaven, and sanctity. The first recorded use of Persian green as a color name in English was in 1892.^[14]^[15]

Sea green

Sea green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#2E8B57
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(46, 139, 87)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(81, 21, 83, 7)
HSV (h, s, v)	(146°, 67%, 55%)
Source	HTML/CSS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Sea green is a shade of cyan color 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. It is also a Crayola crayon color, although the Crayola crayon color is much brighter and lighter than the color shown at right (see the List of Crayola crayon colors).

Flag of a proposed "British Republic" used by Chartists and Radicals in the nineteenth century. Sea green colors were often used by the Chartists and earlier Levellers. A group of 'English republican' intellectuals used a version of this tricolor with blue at the top.

Teal

Main article: Teal

Teal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#008080
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 128, 128)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(100, 0, 0, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(180°, 100%, 50%)
Source	HTML/CSS^[16]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Teal is displayed at right. It is a medium blue-green color that is a representation of the color of the neck coloring of a duck called the common teal.

The color teal is actually a dark tone of cyan.

Pine green

Pine green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#01796F
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(1, 121, 111)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(99, 0, 8, 53)
HSV (h, s, v)	(175°, 99%, 47%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Pine green is a rich dark shade of spring green that resembles the color of pine trees. It is an official Crayola color (since 1903) that is this exact shade in the Crayola crayon, but in the markers, it is 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.^[17]

Skobeloff

Skobeloff

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#007A74
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 122, 116)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(74, 0, 23, 27)
HSV (h, s, v)	(177°, 100%, 48^[18]%)
Source	ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color skobeloff.

The first recorded use of skobeloff as a color name in English was in 1912.^[19]

Viridian

Main article: Viridian

Viridian

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#40826D
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(64, 130, 109)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(51, 0, 16, 49)
HSV (h, s, v)	(161°, 51%, 51%)
Source	Maerz and Paul^[20]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color viridian, a medium tone of spring green.

The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s (exact year uncertain).^[21]

Dark spring green

Dark spring green

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#177245
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(23, 114, 69)
HSV (h, s, v)	(150°, 80%, 45%)
Source	X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the web color dark spring green.

Spring green in nature

Some guppies are colored spring green. Crayola has a colored pencil called guppie green that is exactly the same color as spring green.
Some peacock Swallowtails have a color pattern on their wings that ranges from cyan to green, depending on light reflection. The Papilio blumei and the Papilio palinurus can both show a very luminescent spring green.

Spring green in human culture

Cultural Associations

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.

Environmentalism

Spring green may be used to represent the green movement, especially in graphic design for environmental literature regarding issues having to do with water resources or water conservation.
A spring green environmentalist is a person or an institution that has just recently become committed to environmentalism.^[22]

Food

Pandan cake

Spring greens are a cultivar of Brassica oleracea in the cultivar Acephala Group, similar to kale, in which the central leaves do not form a head or form only a very loose one.
Pandanus amaryllifolius is a plant which yields the pandan leaf used widely in Southeast Asian cuisine (it has a vanilla-like flavor) to make pandan cake and also Vietnamese green waffles, both of which are colored a light to bright tint of spring green.

Geography

Spring Green, Wisconsin is a town in the United States, most notable for being the site of Taliesin, the summer home and school of the prominent architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The bridge over the Wisconsin River that carries U.S. Route 14 is colored spring green.

Holidays

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.).

References

↑ "web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #00FF7F (Spring Green):".
↑ 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 in 1987 of the X11 color spring green (which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 web color spring green), 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.)
↑ "web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #7FFFD4 (Aquamarine):".
↑ "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords".
↑ Origins of the Cambridge Blue
↑ #A3C1AD Color Information
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #A3C1AD (Cambridge Blue):
↑ Cambridge Identity Guidelines
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #30BA8F (Mountain Meadow):
↑ "web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #3EB489 (Mint):".
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; color sample of Mint: Page 81 Plate 29 Color Sample L10
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201; color sample of Jungle Green: Page 87 Plate 32 Color Sample L12 Note: The Color Sample shown as Jungle Green in Maerz and Paul is the color shown in the main article on "jungle green" as dark jungle green.
↑ web.Forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to color #39A78E (Zomp):
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201; color sample of Persian green: Page 85 Plate 31 Color Sample H7
↑ The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps, now on the Internet—see sample of the color Persian green (color sample #159) displayed on indicated web page: .
↑ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Pine Tree: Page 85 Plate 31 Color Sample L6
↑ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #007A74 (Skobeloff):
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 204; Color Sample of Skobeloff: Page 73 Plate 25 Color Sample K9
↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called viridian in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color viridian is displayed on page 79, Plate 28, Color Sample K11.
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; Page 207; the color viridian is displayed on page 79, Plate 28, Color Sample K11.
↑ "Go halfway down web page where it says "How Green is Nest"?:".

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Apple green	Artichoke	Asparagus	Avocado	Bright green	Brunswick green	Cal Poly green	Castleton green	Chartreuse	Cyan

Dark green	Dark olive green	Dark spring green	Dartmouth green	Emerald	Fern green	Forest green	Green	Green-yellow	Harlequin

Hooker's green	Honeydew	Hunter green	India green	Islamic green	Jungle green	Kelly green	Laurel green	Lawn green	Light green

Lime	Lime green	Mantis	Malachite	Mint	Mint cream	Moss green	Myrtle green	Office green	Olive

Olive drab	Pakistan green	Paris green	Persian green	Phthalo green	Pigment green	Pine green	Pistachio	Reseda green	Sea green

Shamrock green	Spring bud	Spring green	Teal	Viridian	Yellow-green

A typical sample is shown for each name; however, a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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