Spring green (color)

Spring green is a color that is the color on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram it corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. "Spring green" is a pure chroma on the color wheel. In HSV colour space, "spring green" has a hue of 150°.

The complementary color of "spring green" is rose.

pring green

infobox color
title=Spring Green|textcolor=black
hex=00FF7F
r= 0|g= 255|b= 127|sRGB=1 c=79|m=0|y=59|k=0
h=150|s=100|v=100
source=X11Displayed 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. [ 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.) ]

In the Crayola markers, spring green is known as "sea foam green".

Variations of spring green

Mint cream

infobox color
title=Mint Cream|textcolor=black
hex=F5FFFA
r=245|g= 255|b= 250
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=150|s= 99|v= 99
source=X11Displayed at right is the web color mint cream, a pale pastel tint of spring green.

The color "mint cream" is a representation of the color of the interior of an after dinner mint (which is disc shaped with mint flavored buttercream on the inside and a chocolate coating on the outside).

Honeydew

infobox color
title=Honeydew|textcolor=black
hex=F0FFF0
r=240|g= 255|b= 240
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=150|s= 97|v= 97
source=X11Displayed at right is the web color honeydew, a pastel tint of spring green.

The color "honeydew" is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a honeydew melon.

Celadon

infobox color
title= Celadon
hex= ACE1AF
r= 172|g=225|b=175
c=21|m= 0|y= 19|k=12
h=135|s= 24|v= 88

At right is displayed the color celadon, a pale grayish tint of spring green.

Moss green

infobox color
title=Moss green
hex=ADDFAD
r=173|g=223|b=173
c= 20|m= 0|y= 22|k= 13
h=135|s= 22|v= 87

Moss green is a light grayish tint of spring green.

Magic mint

infobox color
title=Magic Mint|textcolor=black
hex=AAF0D1
r= 170|g= 240|b= 209
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=150|s= 84|v= 80
source=CrayolaAt right is displayed the color magic mint, a light tint of spring green.

This is a Crayola color formulated in 1990.

Mint green

infobox color
title=Mint Green|textcolor=black
hex=98FF98
r= 152|g= 255|b= 152
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=140|s= 40|v= 100At right is displayed the color mint green, a brilliant tint of spring green.

Medium spring green

infobox color
title=Medium Spring Green|textcolor=black
hex=00FA9A
r= 0|g= 250|b= 154
c=77|m=0|y=62|k=0
h=150|s= 97|v= 97
source=X11 [http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#html4 W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords] ] 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

infobox color
title=Caribbean Green|textcolor=black
hex=00CC99
r= 0|g= 204|b= 153
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=150|s= 100|v= 44
source=CrayolaAt right is displayed the color Caribbean green. This is a Crayola color formulated in 1998.

Persian green

infobox color
title= Persian Green|textcolor=white
hex=00A693
r= 0|g= 166|b= 147
c= 80|m= 0|y= 22|k= 0
h= 135|s= 75|v= 60
source= [http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-p.htm ISCC-NBS] At right is displayed the color Persian green, a deep tint of spring green.

Medium sea green

infobox color
title=Medium Sea Green|textcolor=white
hex=3CB371
r=60|g= 179|b= 113
c= |m=0|y= |k=
h=150|s= 42|v= 30
source=X11At right is displayed the web color medium sea green, a medium shade of spring green.

ea green

infobox color
title=Sea Green|textcolor=white
hex=2E8B57
r=46|g= 139|b= 87
c= |m=0|y= |k=
h=150|s= 97|v= 97
source=X11At right is displayed the web color sea green, a medium dark shade of spring green.

Pine green

infobox color
title=Pine Green|textcolor=white
hex=01796F
r= 1|g= 121|b= 111
c=99|m=0|y=8|k=53
h=140|s=99|v=47
source=CrayolaAt right is displayed the color pine green, a rich shade of spring green.

kobeloff

infobox color
title=Skobeloff|textcolor=white
hex=007474
r= 0 |g= 122|b= 116
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=140|s=97 |v=44
source= [http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-s.htm ISCC-NBS] At right is displayed the color skobeloff, a deep rich shade of spring green widely used in interior design. It is especially popular for painting dining rooms.

Viridian

infobox color|title=Viridian|hex=40826D|textcolor=white
r=64|g=130|b=109
c=51|m=0|y=16|k=49
h=140|s=87|v=97 At right is displayed the color viridian, a medium shade of spring green.

Dark spring green

infobox color|title=Dark Spring Green|hex=177245|textcolor=white
r=23|g=114|b=69
c= |m= |y= |k=
h=150|s=80|v=45 At right is displayed the color dark spring green.

hades of spring green color comparison chart

• SPRING GREEN (web color) (Hex: #00FF7F) (RGB: 0, 255, 127)
• Medium Spring Green (web color) (Hex: #00FA9A) (RGB: 0, 250, 154)
• Dark Spring Green (web color) (Hex: #177245) (RGB: 23, 114, 69)

pring green in human culture

Cultural Associations
* "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.Environmentalism
* Spring green may be used to represent the green movement, especially in graphic design for environmental literature regarding issues having to do with water resources or water conservation.
* A "spring green environmentalist" is a person or an institution that has just recently become committed to environmentalism. [ [http://www.blueegg.com/what_others_are_doing/qa/2007/10/10/Nest-qa/print.go Go halfway down web page where it says “How Green is Nest”?:] ] Food
* 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.
*"Pandanus amaryllifolius"is a plant which yields the "pandan" leaf used widely in Southeast Asian cuisine (it has a vanilla-like flavor) to make pandan cake and also "Vietnamese green waffles", both of which are colored a light to bright tint of spring green.Geography
* Spring Green, Wisconsin is a town in the United States, most notable for being the site of Taliesin, the summer home and school of the prominent architect Frank Lloyd Wright.Holidays
* 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.).

References

ee also

* List of colors