Spring green

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Pandan cake

Spring green is a color that is the color on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green.

It is one of the official web colors.

The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766, referring to roughly the color we now call spring bud.

Meaning of spring green[change | change source]

  • 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.
  • Pandanis 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 bright spring green color.
  • 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. [1]

Tones of spring green color comparison chart[change | change source]

  • Mint Cream
  • Honeydew
  • Light Frosted Mint
  • Frosted Mint
  • Light Edgewater
  • Aquamarine (web color) (Light Teal) (Hex:7FFFD4) (RGB: 127, 255, 212)
  • Fairyland (Plochere) (Hex: 96DED1) (RGB: 150, 222, 209)
  • Light Keppel (Keppel Light (Xona.com color list)) (Hex: #8DDCD3) (RGB: 141, 220, 211)
  • Bright Sea Green (Sea Green (Crayola)) (Hex:9FE2BF) (RGB: 159, 226, 191)
  • Edgewater (Xona.com color list) (Hex: #CBE3D7) (RGB: 200, 227, 215)
  • Celadon (PerBang.dk) (Hex: #ACE1AF) (RGB:172, 225, 175)
  • Moss Green (PerBang.dk) (Hex: #ADDFAD) (RGB:173, 223, 173)
  • Magic Mint (Crayola) (Hex: #AAF0D1) (RGB:170, 240, 209)
  • Mint Green (PerBang.dk) (Hex: #98FF98) (RGB:152, 255, 152)
  • Spring Green (web color) (Hex: #00FF7F) (RGB: 0, 255, 127)
  • Medium Spring Green (web color) (Hex: #00FA9A) (RGB: 0, 250, 154)
  • Rich Spring Green (Hex: #00E39A) (RGB: 0, 227, 154)
  • Caribbean Green (Crayola) (Hex: #00CC99) (RGB: 0, 204, 153)
  • Mountain Meadow (Crayola) (Hex: #30BA8F) (RGB: 40, 180, 143)
  • Mint (Mint Leaf (ISCC-NBS)) (Hex: #3EB489) (RGB: 62, 180, 137)
  • Keppel (Xona.com color list) (Hex: #3AB09E) (RGB: 58, 176, 158)
  • Zomp (Resene color list) (Hex: #39A78E) (RGB: 57, 167, 142)
  • Jungle Green (Crayola) (Hex: #00A693) (RGB: 41, 171, 136)
  • Persian Green (ISCC-NBS) (Hex: #00A693) (RGB: 0, 166, 147)
  • Light Sea Green (web color) (Hex: #20B2AA) (RGB: 32, 178, 70)
  • Light Deep Sea (Deep Sea Light (Xona.com color list)) (Hex: #1CC3B4) (RGB: 28, 195, 180)
  • Light Gossamer (Gossamer Light (Xona.com color list)) (Hex: #39D1C2) (RGB: 57, 209, 194)
  • Polished Pine (Crayola Silver Swirls) (Hex: #5DA493) (RGB: 93, 164, 147)
  • Green Sheen (Crayola Silver Swirls) (Hex: #6EAEA1) (RGB: 119, 174, 161)
  • Grayish Sea Green (web color "Dark Sea Green") (Hex: #8FBC8F) (RGB: 143, 188, 143)
  • UFO Green (Crayola) (Little Green Man) (Hex: #3CD070) (RGB: 60, 208, 112)
  • Medium Sea Green (web color) (Hex: #3CB371) (RGB: 60, 179, 113)
  • Sea Green (web color) (Hex: #2E8B57) (RGB: 46, 139, 87)
  • Area 51 (Resene color list) (Dark Little Green Man) (Hex: #3C8043) (RGB: 60, 128, 67)
  • Gossamer (Xona.com color list) (Hex: #069B81) (RGB: 6, 155, 129)
  • Deep Sea (Xona.com color list) (Hex: #01826B) (RGB: 1, 130, 107)
  • Pine Green (Crayola) (Hex: #01796F) (RGB: 1, 121, 111)
  • Skobeloff (ISCC-NBS) (Hex: #007474) (RGB: 0, 122, 116)
  • Wintergreen Dream (Crayola Silver Swirls) (Hex: #56887D) (RGB: 86, 136, 125)
  • Viridian (PerBang.dk) (Hex: #40826D) (RGB:64, 130, 109)
  • Dark Spring Green (web color) (Hex: #177245) (RGB: 23, 114, 69)
  • Wintergreen (ISCC-NBS #146) (Hex: #1B4D3E) (RGB: 27, 77, 62)

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References[change | change source]

  1. Go halfway down web page where it says “How Green is Nest”?: