Forest green | |
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Hex triplet | #228B22 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (34, 139, 34) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (120°, 76%, 55%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (51, 70, 128°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellowish green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Forest green is a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest.
This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for website color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space). [1]
The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810. [2]
Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.
Forest green (Crayola) | |
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Hex triplet | #5FA777 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (95, 167, 119) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (140°, 43%, 65%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (63, 45, 139°) |
Source | Crayola |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color called "forest green" in Crayola crayons. Forest green has been a Crayola crayon name since 1958, when it was renamed from dark green.
Tropical Rainforest | |
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Hex triplet | #00755E |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (0, 117, 94) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (168°, 100%, 46%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (44, 38, 163°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate green |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the color tropical rainforest, a bluish-shade of forest green.
The color tropical rainforest was formulated by Crayola in 1993.
Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element.
Powder blue is a pale shade of blue. As with most colours, there is no absolute definition of its exact hue. Originally, powder blue, in the 1650s, was powdered smalt used in laundering and dyeing applications, and it then came to be used as a colour name from 1894.
Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish-purplish-red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.
Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by average people as opposed to website designers. The color lavender might be described as a medium purple or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side. In paints, the color lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint.
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
Maroon is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".
Lime is a color that is a shade of yellow-green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel. Alternate names for this color included yellow-green, lemon-lime, lime green, or bitter lime.
Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon. Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sunlight or full-spectrum light, but can appear black under certain more limited spectra sometimes found in artificial lighting. It is similar to navy, which is also a dark blue.
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In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space. In the RGB color space it is a secondary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. The complementary color of orange is azure. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.
Jungle green is a color that is a rich tone of medium spring green.
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Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a red or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors are shown below.
The color magenta has notable tints and shades. These various colors are shown below.
Varieties of the color blue may differ in hue, chroma, or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a blue or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these colors are shown below.
Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades. It is one of the subtractive primary colors along with magenta, and yellow.
Shades of black are colors that differ only slightly from pure black. These colors have a low lightness. From a photometric point of view, a color which differs slightly from black always has low relative luminance. Variations of black include what are commonly termed off-black colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme, usually in interior design as a part of a background for brighter colors. Black and dark gray colors are powerful accent colors that suggest weight, dignity, formality, and solemnity.
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