There are many
tints and shades of the
color green. These various colors are shown below.
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.The New Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2002. ISBN 0852297874 Many shades of green have been named after plants or are related to plants.
Asparagus
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 on the right.
Forest green
Gray-asparagus or
gray-green is a mix of the colors
gray and
asparagus.
Jungle green
Moss green is a shade of
green. It is normally a hazy gray-green, close to an earthtone.
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, the green of
Hunslet Hawks Rugby League Club and the green of the blazers, sports kit and scarf of
St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow. It is also one of the school colors of
Lane Technical College Prep High School in
Chicago, the other being
gold.
Pine green
Shamrock green (Irish 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.I. Patterson,
A Dictionary of Colour, Thorogood, 2003, ISBN 1-85418-247-1, page 381. "tea green - The greyish green of green tea."
This color is used on boxes of green tea.
Teal
Teal is equal parts blue and green. The color gets its name from the fact that it surrounds the eyes of the
common teal.
Computer web color greens
Green (X11)
The color displayed on the 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.
Green (HTML/CSS)
Celadon (pronounced ) 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
Song 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.
"The aesthetic beauty of Korean celadon" at Korean Arts
Dartmouth green
Dartmouth green is the official color of
Dartmouth College, adopted in 1866. It was famously chosen after a crew race with a number of other colleges for being "the only decent color that had not been taken already."
Ask Dartmouth It is notable for its prominent use as the name of the Dartmouth College athletic team, the
Dartmouth Big Green. The Dartmouth athletic teams adopted this new name after the college officially discontinued the use of its unofficial mascot, the Dartmouth Indian, in 1974.
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.Chandraseekaran, Rajiv
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone 2007 People with emerald
auras are said to be "capable of versatility, ingenuity, and resourcefulness, applied unselfishly". Arthur E. Powell
The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomenon Wheaton, Illinois:1927—Theosophical Publishing House Page 12 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. The
Emerald Triangle refers to the three
counties of
Mendocino,
Humboldt, and
Trinity in Northern
California,
United States{{cite web
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because these three counties are the biggest
marijuana producing counties in California and also the
USA. A county-commissioned study reports pot accounts for up to two-thirds of the economy of Mendocino.
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.Farbmuster nach
RAL 7009, cited in 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. 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 and later on grey-green as the German ones. The last uniform to use the color was the woollen m/58 winter uniform.
Green-yellow
Hunter green
Jade is a saturated, slightly bluish green. The name comes from the
gemstone called
jade, although the stone varies widely in hue.
In
Chinese culture, if one wishes to express one's
love for someone, one gives them something made of the gemstone jade or an object that is colored jade.
Kelly green
Kelly green is a shade of
green that is popular in
Ireland and among most
Irish-Americans as well as most people of
Irish ancestry wherever they reside.
The name
kelly green for the color originated in
Ireland. The name derives from the fact that the
surname Kelly, as well as the color green, are both popular in Ireland. The first recorded use of the term
kelly green as a color name in
English was in 1935.Mish, Frederic C., Editor-in-Chief
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1984--Merriam-Webster Page 658
Kelly green is the color the
Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, and was chosen over
Chartreuse because it would not fade after a summer of marching in direct sunlight.
Kelly green is a
school color for the
Marshall University Thundering Herd
Kelly green is also the
school color for
Brick Township High School's
Green Dragons of
Brick Township, NJ.
Kelly green is also the
school color for
Choctawhatchee High School.
Kelly green is also a
school color for
Ashbrook High School in
Gastonia, NC.
Until 1995, it was used as a primary color by the
Oakland Athletics. Afterward, it was replaced by
hunter green.
It was used as the primary color of the
Philadelphia Eagles until 1995; it was replaced with "midnight green" (
Hex triplet: #003b48) for the 1996 season.
From 1978 to 1997, the
New York Jets used kelly green as their primary color. In 1998, the Jets discarded the kelly green in favor of hunter green, which is a darker shade of green than the kelly variation.
Midnight green
The conservative shade of green shown on the right,
office green, was the original color designated as "green" for computer displays in the 1980s. It was apparently chosen because it is the color of the green-colored
pencils used by
accountants and the color of green office
file cabinets.
Persian green
Rifle green is a particular shade of dark green. It is so named from the distinctive color of the uniform of rifle regiments (a form of
light infantry) of a number of European armies, and is still used as such by rifle regiments in many
Commonwealth armies, such as
The Rifles and
Royal Gurkha Rifles of the
British Army.
Rifle green was originally adopted by rifle regiments in the 18th Century. As the traditional role of riflemen was that of
marksmen and
skirmishers who attacked behind the cover of trees, a dark green uniform was adopted as an early form of
camouflage, as opposed to the colorful uniforms worn by other soldiers of the period.
Rifle green was the official uniform color of the
Canadian Forces (CF) after unification; it was thereafter generally referred to as "CF green"; indeed, the
Service Dress uniform of the day was referred to as "CF greens". After the introduction of the
Distinct Environmental Uniform (DEU), rifle green remained as the uniform color of the winter Land Environment DEU; a short-lived tan uniform was worn in summer. After the demise of the tans, the rifle green DEU was worn year-round.
Rifle green is 19-0419 TPX in the
Pantone palette, or roughly 414833h in the
sRGB color space.
Sacramento State green
In 2004,
California State University, Sacramento rebranded itself as Sacramento State, while keeping the official name as the long form. In the process of rebranding a new logo was selected, and in 2005 it formalized the colors which it would use.{{cite web
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Sea green
