Spring green


Spring green is a color included 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 color space, the expression of which is known as the :File:RBG color wheel.svg|RGB color wheel, spring green has a hue of 150°. Spring green is one of the tertiary colors on the RGB color wheel. It is also sometimes referred to as mint green.
The complementary color of spring green is rose.
Spring green is a web color.
The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766.

Variations of spring green

Aquamarine

Aquamarine is a color that is a pale bright tint of spring green toned toward cyan. It represents the color of the aquamarine gemstone. Aquamarine is the birthstone for those born in March.

Cambridge blue

Cambridge blue is the color commonly used by sports teams from Cambridge University.
This color is actually a medium tone of spring green. Spring green colors are colors with an h code of between 135 and 165; this color has an h code of 140, putting it within the range of spring green colors on the :File:RBG color wheel.svg|RGB color wheel.

Caribbean green

At right is displayed the color Caribbean green. This is a Crayola color formulated in 1997.

Dark spring green

At right is displayed the web color dark spring green.

Erin

At the right is displayed the color erin.
The first recorded use of erin as a color name was in 1922.

Honeydew

Displayed 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.

Jungle green

Displayed on the right is the color jungle green. In 1990, Crayola named and formulated the specific tone of jungle green shown at right. The first recorded use of jungle green as a name of a color in the English language was in 1926.

Magic mint

At right is displayed the color magic mint, a light tint of spring green.
The color magic mint is a light tint of the color mint.
Ceramic tiles in a similar color, often with a contrasting black border, were a popular choice for bathroom, kitchen and upmarket hotel swimming pool décor during the 1930s.
This is a Crayola color formulated in 1990.

Medium sea green

At right is displayed the web color medium sea green, a medium shade of spring green.

Medium spring green

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 closer to cyan than to green.

Mint

The color mint, also known as mint leaf, is a representation of the color of mint.
The first recorded use of mint as a color name in English was in 1920.

Mint cream

Displayed at right is the web color mint cream, a pale pastel tint of spring green.
chocolate with mint cream filling
The color mint cream is a representation of the color of the interior of an after dinner mint.

Mint green

Mint green is a pale tint of green that resembles the color of mint green pigment, and was a popular color in the 1990s.

Mountain meadow

Displayed at right is the color mountain meadow.
Mountain meadow is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1998.

Persian green

Persian green is a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran.
is Persian green in color.
Other colors associated with Persia include Persian red and Persian blue. The color Persian green is named from the green color of some Persian pottery and is a representation of the color of the mineral malachite. It is a popular color in Iran because the color green symbolizes gardens, nature, heaven, and sanctity. The first recorded use of Persian green as a color name in English was in 1892.

Pine green

Pine green is a rich dark shade of spring green that resembles the color of pine trees. It is an official Crayola color that is this exact shade in the Crayola crayon, but in the markers, it is known as crocodile green.
tree in Bhutan
The color pine green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a coniferous forest. The color pine green was originally known as pine tree. The first recorded use of pine tree as a color name in English was in 1923.

Sea green

Sea green is a shade of cyan color that resembles the hue of shallow seawater as seen from the surface.
Sea green is notable for being the emblematic color of the Levellers party in the politics of 1640s England. Leveller supporters would wear a sea-green ribbon, in a similar manner to the present-day red AIDS awareness ribbon.
and Radicals in the nineteenth century. Sea green colors were often used by the Chartists and earlier Levellers. A group of 'English republican' intellectuals used a version of this tricolor with blue at the top.

Sea foam green

This is the Crayola version of the above color, a much brighter and lighter shade. It was introduced in 2001.

Skobeloff

At right is displayed the color Skobeloff green.
The first recorded use of Skobeloff green as a color name in English was in 1912.

Teal

Teal is displayed at right. It is a medium blue-green color that is a representation of the color of the neck coloring of a duck called the common teal.
The color teal is actually a dark tone of cyan.

Viridian

At right is displayed the color viridian, a medium tone of spring green.
The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s.

Zomp

Displayed at right is the color zomp.
Zomp is one of the colors on the , a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "zomp" was formulated in 2007.

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