Chartreuse (color)

For other uses, see Chartreuse.

Chartreuse (UK: /ʃɑːˈtrɜːz/, US: /ʃɑːrˈtruːz/ or /ʃɑːrˈtruːs/;^[1] French pronunciation: [ʃaʁtʁøz]) (the web color) is a color halfway between yellow and green that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green that was named because of its resemblance to the color of one of the French liqueurs called yellow chartreuse, introduced in 1838.^[2]

Chartreuse (web color)

Chartreuse (web color)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#7FFF00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(127, 255, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(90°, 100%, 100[3]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Green Chartreuse liqueur

At right is displayed the web color chartreuse.

The term chartreuse was first used to refer to "a pale apple-green" in 1884.^[4] This was codified to refer to this brighter color when the X11 colors were formulated in 1987; by the early 1990s, they became known as the X11 web colors. The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow. It is one of the tertiary colors of the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel. Another name for this color is chartreuse green. ^[5]

Chartreuse yellow

A bottle of yellow chartreuse liqueur

The color name chartreuse yellow , also known as chartreuse (traditional) or traditional chartreuse, refers to the much more yellowish tone of chartreuse than the web color "chartreuse" that was generally regarded as "chartreuse" (and still is regarded as such by many) before the X11 color chartreuse (shown above) was formulated in 1987.^{[citation needed]}

The first recorded use of chartreuse (meaning the color that is now called chartreuse yellow) in English was in 1892.^[6]

Variations of chartreuse

Green-yellow

Main article: Green-yellow

Green-Yellow
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#ADFF2F
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(173, 255, 47)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(84°, 100%, 67%)
Source		X11[7]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color green-yellow, a light tint of chartreuse.

Lawn green

Lawn Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#7CFC00
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(124, 252, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(90°, 98%, 48%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color lawn green, a bright tint of chartreuse.

Pistachio

Ripening pistachio culinary nuts

Pistachio
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#93C572
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(147, 197, 114)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(96°, 42%, 77[8]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color pistachio, also called pistachio green, a representation of the color of the interior meat of a pistachio nut. It is also a representation of the color of pistachio ice cream (one of the flavors of ice cream in spumoni), and of pistachio pudding.

The first recorded use of pistachio green as a color name in English was in 1789.^[9]

Source of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Pistachio Green (Color Sample #135).

Yellow-green

Yellow-Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#9ACD32
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(154, 205, 50)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(90°, 60%, 54%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color yellow-green, a dull medium shade of chartreuse.

Before the X11 colors were formulated in 1987, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (chartreuse green), shown above. Now, the term "yellow-green" is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.

Apple green

A Granny Smith apple

Apple Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#8DB600
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(141, 182, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(74°, 100%, 71[10]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color apple green, a representation of the color of the outer skin of a green apple.

The first recorded use of apple green as a color name in English was in 1648.^[11]

Source of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Apple Green (Color Sample #115).

Olive

Green olives

Olive
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#808000
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(128, 128, 0)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(60°, 100%, 50[12]%)
Source		X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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 toward green, it becomes olive drab. Olive can also be referred to as dark yellow. That the color olive is a shade of yellow can readily be ascertained by inspecting its hex code—the red and green values are equal, with no blue value, signifying a shade of 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 light blue.

Olive drab

Olive Drab
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#6B8E23
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(107, 142, 35)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(80°, 75%, 56%)
Source		X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Olive drab is the color olive shaded toward a greener color.

The first recorded use of olive drab as a color name in English was in 1892.^[13]

Olive drab was the color of the standard fighting uniform for U.S. GIs and military vehicles during World War II. U.S. soldiers often referred to their uniforms as "OD's" due to the color. The color used at the beginning of the war by the US Army was officially called Olive Drab #3, which was replaced by the darker Olive Drab #7 by 1944, and which was again replaced by Olive Green 107 or OG-107 in 1952 and continued as the official uniform color for combat fatigues through the Vietnam War, until replaced by Engineer Research & Development Laboratories (ERDL) camouflage uniforms. The ERDL uniforms were then replaced by M81 woodland camo fatigues as the primary US uniform scheme in the 1980s, and still retain olive drab as one of the color swatches in the pattern.

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.^[14] There are very few countries still issuing uni-color Olive Drab uniforms, Israel, India, Cuba, and Austria being the exceptions.

In the American novel A Separate Peace, Finny said to Gene, "...and in these times of war, we all see olivine drab, and we all know it is the patriotic color. All others aren't about the war; they aren't patriotic."

The color is currently defined by the FS-595 paint standard.^[15][16]

Camouflage green

Camouflage green is a color which resembles the gray-green color often used by the military and hunters to camouflage themselves. Thus, this color may often be known as military green and is related to hunter green.

Dark olive green

Dark Olive Green
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#556B2F
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(85, 107, 47)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(82°, 56%, 42[17]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color dark olive green.

Nature

• Yellow-green alga, also called xanthophytes, is a class of algae in the Heterokontophyta division. Most live in freshwater, but some are found in marine and soil habitats. They vary from single-celled flagellates to simple colonial and filamentous forms. Unlike other heterokonts, yellow-green algae's chloroplasts do not contain fucoxanthin, which is why they have a lighter color.

Chartreuse in popular culture

Alcoholic beverages

• Chartreuse represents green chartreuse liqueur; Chartreuse yellow represents yellow chartreuse liqueur.^[2]

Art

• In Modesto, California, there is a gallery and art school known as the Chartreuse Muse.^[18]

Electronics

• The early green LEDs are now sometimes called chartreuse to distinguish them from more-modern, deeper-green LEDs.^[19]

Film

• Chartreuse green is the color of the Autobot medic Ratchet in the live action 2007 Transformers film.^[20]
• The 1960 Universal film Chartroose Caboose featured a "bright green" colored train car.^[21]

Restaurants

• The Chartroose Caboose is a restaurant in Overland Park, Missouri that specializes in Philadelphia steak sandwiches.^[22]

Vexillology

• When Bharatpur was a princely state, it was the only political entity ever to have a chartreuse yellow colored flag.^[23]

Video games

• The Chartreuse Hall is a hydroponics section in the game No One Lives Forever, in the Low Earth Orbit mission.^[24]

See also

• Lime
• List of colors

References

1. ^ "Chartreuse". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin/Yahoo! Inc. http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/Chartreuse. Retrieved 2010-01-19. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Green Chartreuse and Yellow Chartreuse". Chartreuse Liqueurs. http://www.chartreuse.fr/pa_green&yellow_uk.htm. Retrieved 2008-05-05. 
3. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #7FFF00 (Chartreuse (web color))(Chartreuse Green):
4. ^ The Oxford English Dictionary. Second edition, 1989. 
5. ^ See the 1930s version of "Chartreuse green" in the index and color samples, a color not as green as the web color chartreuse, but greener than chartreuse yellow--actually it is a representation of the actual color of green chartreuse liqueur. The first recorded use of chartreuse green as a color name in English was in 1926--Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color Page 192; Color sample of Chartreuse Green: Page 47 Plate 12 Color Sample L2
6. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192
7. ^ "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#html4. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
8. ^ "web.forrett.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #93C572 (Pistachio)):". Web.forret.com. http://web.forret.com/tools/color.asp?RGB=%2393C572. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
9. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Pistachio Green: Page 61 Plate 19 Color Sample C6
10. ^ "web.forrett.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #8DB600 (Apple Green):". Web.forret.com. http://web.forret.com/tools/color.asp?RGB=%238DB600. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
11. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 189; Color Sample of Apple Green: Page 61 Plate 19 Color Sample J6
12. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #808000 (Olive):
13. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample of Olive Drab: Page 53 Plate 15 Color Sample J5
14. ^ "Soldier'S Barracks Bag". Olive-drab.com. 2008-05-22. http://www.olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_gear_barracks_bag.php. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
15. ^ "What Does Olive Drab Mean?". Olive-drab.com. 2008-05-22. http://www.olive-drab.com/od_whatisod.php3. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
16. ^ "Custom - Federal Standard 595 Fed-Std-595 Color Chart". Chassis-plans.com. http://www.chassis-plans.com/paint_fed-std-595.html. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
17. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #556B2F (Dark Olive Green):
18. ^ Website for the Chartreuse Muse
19. ^ "Green LED info wanted -- pure green, not yellow-green". Ask MetaFilter. http://ask.metafilter.com/40095/Green-LED-info-wanted-pure-green-not-yellowgreen. Retrieved 2008-05-05. 
20. ^ "The Making Of The Transformers Movie - Production Design: The Robots, The Vehicles, The Sets". ENI. 2007-06-15. http://enewsi.com/news.php?catid=190&itemid=11213. Retrieved 2007-09-13. 
21. ^ "N.Y. Times Overview of the film Chartroose Caboose:". Movies.nytimes.com. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/87023/Chartroose-Caboose/overview. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
22. ^ Website of restaurant the Chartroose Caboose:
23. ^ "Baratpur—Indian Princely State—the only political entity ever to have a chartreuse colored flag:". Fotw.us. http://www.fotw.us/flags/in-bhara.html. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 
24. ^ "No One Lives Forever Game Guide". Gamespot.com. 1996-08-20. http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/guides/pc/nolf/p6_25.html. Retrieved 2009-04-15. 

External links

• Chartreuse Trivia
• #DFFF00