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 RGB color wheel, spring green has a hue of 150°. Spring green is one of the tertiary colors on the RGB color wheel.
The complementary color of spring green is rose.
Displayed 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.
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Variations of spring green
Mint cream
Displayed 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
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.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine is a color that is a pale bright tint of spring green toned toward cyan.
Magic mint
At right is displayed the color magic mint, a light tint of spring green.
The color mint green 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 (later retired in 2003).
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.
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 (hue 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 RGB color wheel.
Caribbean green
At right is displayed the color Caribbean green. This is a Crayola color formulated in 1997.
Mountain meadow
Displayed at right is the color mountain meadow.
Mountain meadow is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1998.
Mint
The color mint, also known as mint leaf, is a representation of the color of mint. The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Mint Leaf (color sample #140):.
The first recorded use of mint as a color name in English was in 1920.
Medium sea green
At right is displayed the web color medium sea green, a medium shade of spring green.
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.
Zomp
Displayed at right is the color zomp.
Zomp is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "zomp" was formulated in 2007.
Persian green
Persian green is a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran.
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.
Sea green
Sea green is a shade of cyan color that resembles the sea floor 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.
Sea foam green
This is the Crayola version of the above color, a much brighter and lighter shade. It was introduced in 2001.
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.
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 (since 1903) that is this exact shade in the Crayola crayon, but in the markers, it is known as crocodile green.
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.
Skobeloff
At right is displayed the color skobeloff.
The first recorded use of skobeloff as a color name in English was in 1912.
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 (exact year uncertain).
Dark spring green
At right is displayed the web color dark spring green.
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Spring green in nature
- Some guppies are colored spring green. Crayola has a colored pencil called guppie green that is exactly the same color as spring green.
- Some peacock swallowtails have a color pattern on their wings that ranges from cyan to green, depending on light reflection. The Papilio blumei and the Papilio palinurus can both show a very luminescent spring green.
Spring 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.
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. The bridge over the Wisconsin River that carries U.S. Route 14 is colored spring green.
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.).
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