3 Color names for "Shades Of Forest Green"

Displayed in the color box is the color called "forest green" in Crayola crayons. Forest green has been a Crayola crayon name since 1958, when it was renamed from dark green.

Forest green refers to a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest. This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for website color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space). The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810. Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.

The color shown is one of the official colors used by the University of the Philippines, designated as "UP Forest Green." It is based on the approved color specifications for the university's seal.