Variations of green
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This article is about notable tints and shades of the color green. These various colors are shown below.
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[edit] 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.[1] Many shades of green have been named after plants or are related to plants.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Dark jungle green
Displayed at right is the color dark jungle green.
The source of this color is the following website, the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) (a site for stamp collectors to identify the colors of their stamps)--Color Sample of [dark] jungle green (color sample #152): [2]
[edit] Deep jungle green
Displayed at right is the color deep jungle green.
The source of this color is the following website, the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) (a site for stamp collectors to identify the colors of their stamps)--Color Sample of [Deep] Jungle Green (color sample #165): [3]
[edit] 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.
[edit] Forest green
Forest green refers to a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest. At right is displayed the color forest green. This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for web site color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space)[2]. Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.
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. A forest green environmentalist (also called a dark green environmentalist) is an environmentalist who is seriously committed to environmentalism. [3] Forest green is one of the school colors of the University of the Philippines[4], Cass Technical High School, and The Westminster Schools. Sports Forest green is one of the team colors of the Forest Green Rovers F.C., an English football club.
[edit] Gray-asparagus
Gray-asparagus or gray-green is a mix of the colors gray and asparagus.
[edit] 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. [5]
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.
[edit] Medium jungle green
Displayed at right is the color medium jungle green.
The source of this color is the following website, the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) (a site for stamp collectors to identify the colors of their stamps)--Color Sample of [Medium] Jungle Green (color sample #147): [4]
[edit] Moss green
Moss green is a shade of green. It is normally a hazy gray-green, close to an earthtone.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Olive
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 green, it becomes olive drab. Olive can also be referred to as dark 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 lavender.
[edit] Olive drab
Olive drab is the color olive shaded toward a greener color.
Olive drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for U.S. GIs and tanks during World War II. U.S. soldiers often referred to their uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. There are very few countries still issuing Olive Drab uniforms, Israel, India and Austria being the exceptions. The color is currently defined by the FS-595 paint standard.[6][7] 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.[8]
[edit] 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. [9] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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[citation needed]. It represents the color of Shamrocks in what is poetically called the "Emerald Isle" for its emerald-colored vegetation[citation needed]. This green is legally defined as Pantone 347[10]
It is customary in both Ireland 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Tropical rain forest
Displayed at right is the color tropical rain forest.
The color tropical rain forest was formulated by Crayola in 1993.
It is unclear why Crayola called this color tropical rain forest since tropical rain forest is simply the politically correct synonym for jungle (technically, however, there is a slight difference--a jungle is actually a monsoon forest which is slightly different from a tropical rain forest).
[edit] Computer web color greens
[edit] In X11
Lime (HTML/CSS)
HTML/CSS[12]
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Other notable green colors
[edit] 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;[citation needed] however, it is due to be phased out and replaced by a blue uniform in 2011--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.[13] The color army green has been adopted by the armies of many other nations of the world.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.[14]
[edit] Camouflage green
Camouflage green is a color that resembles the gray-green color often used by the military and hunters to camouflage themselves. Thus, this color is often known as military green and is related to hunter green.
Camouflage green is used in camouflage.
[edit] Celadon
Celadon (pronounced /sɛlɘdɔn/) 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 Tang 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.[15]
[edit] 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. [16] People with emerald auras are said to be "capable of versatility, ingenuity, and resourcefulness, applied unselfishly". [17] 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.
[edit] 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.[18] 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. First, were the khaki-colored uniforms of the British Army (the 1885-era troops in India, then the British army during the Second Boer War). 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.
