7 Color names for "Shades Of Emerald"

It is a cyan green shade of the chromatic circle. It is spectral with a wavelength of 516nm.

Emerald is the color from Crayola 1994 Gem Tones series, a pack of 16 crayons modeled after the colors of gemstones.

Emerald is the color that was chosen as the "2013 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Displayed here is the color called "Illuminating Emerald" in Crayola Metallic FX Crayons from 2001, a set of 16 metallic crayons whose names were chosen through a contest open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.

Emerald, also called emerald green, is a tone of green that is particularly light and bright, with a faint bluish cast. The name derives from the typical appearance of the emerald gemstone. The first recorded use of emerald as a color name in English was in 1598. The normalized color coordinates for emerald are identical to the color Paris green, which is the name introduced in England during the 19th century to market the dye that resulted from using the toxic inorganic compound created in Germany. It was notorious for causing deaths due to it being a popular color used for wallpaper. Victorian women used this bright color for dresses, and florists used it on fake flowers.

Spanish emerald is the color that is called 'Esmeralda' in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Paolo Veronese green is the color that is called Verde Verones in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm. Paolo Veronese green was a color formulated and used by the noted 16th-century Venetian artist Paolo Veronese. Paolo Veronese green began to be used as a color name in English sometime in the 1800s (exact year uncertain). Another name for this color is transparent oxide of chromium.