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Spring green (#00FF7F)
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
The complementary color of spring green is Rose.
Spring green
| Spring Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00FF7F | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 127) |
| (h, s, v) | (150°, 100%, 100%) | |
| Source | X11[1] | |
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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]
In the Crayola markers, spring green is known as sea foam green.
Variations of spring green
Celadon
| Celadon | ||
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| Hex triplet | #ACE1AF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (172, 225, 175) |
| (h, s, v) | (135°, 24%, 88%) | |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color celadon, a pale tint of spring
green.
Moss green
| Moss green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #addfad | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (173, 223, 173) |
| (h, s, v) | (135°, 22%, 87%) | |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
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Moss green is a pale grayish tint of spring green.
Magic mint
| Magic Mint | ||
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| Hex triplet | #AAF0D1 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (170, 240, 209) |
| (h, s, v) | (150°, 84%, 80%) | |
| Source | Crayola | |
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At right is displayed the color magic mint, a light tint of spring green.
This is a Crayola color formulated in 1990.
Mint green
| Mint Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #98FF98 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (152, 155, 152) |
| (h, s, v) | (140°, 40%, 100%) | |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
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At right is displayed the color mint green, a brilliant tint of spring green.
Medium spring green
| Medium Spring Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00FA9A | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 250, 154) |
| (h, s, v) | (150°, 97%, 97%) | |
| Source | X11[1] | |
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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
cyan than to green.
Caribbean green
| Caribbean Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00CC99 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 204, 153) |
| (h, s, v) | (150°, 100%, 44%) | |
| Source | Crayola | |
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At right is displayed the color Caribbean green. This is a Crayola color formulated in
1998.
Persian green
| Persian Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00A693 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 166, 147) |
| (h, s, v) | (135°, 75%, 60%) | |
| Source | ISCC-NBS | |
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At right is displayed the color Persian green, a deep tint of spring green.
Medium sea green
| Medium Sea Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #3CB371 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (60, 179, 113) |
| (h, s, v) | (150°, 42%, 30%) | |
| Source | X11 | |
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At right is displayed the web color medium sea green, a medium shade of spring green.
Sea green
| Sea Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #2E8B57 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (46, 139, 87) |
| (h, s, v) | (150°, 97%, 97%) | |
| Source | X11 | |
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At right is displayed the web color sea green, a medium dark shade of spring green.
Pine green
| Pine Green | ||
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| Hex triplet | #01796F | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (1, 121, 111) |
| (h, s, v) | (140°, 99%, 47%) | |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color pine green, a rich shade of spring green.
Viridian
| Viridian | ||
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| Hex triplet | #40826D | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (64, 130, 109) |
| (h, s, v) | (140°, 87%, 97%) | |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
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At right is displayed the color viridian, a dark shade of spring green.
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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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.
- Spring Green, Wisconsin is a city in the United States.
- 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.).
- 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.
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.)
See also
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