222 Color names for "Shades Of Green"

Green is a color between the yellow and blue colors in the rainbow. Green is a primary color (a color that can be mixed with another color) of light. The others are red and blue. Green and blue are next to each other on the spectrum, and there are languages which do not distinguish between them. Examples are old Chinese, Thai, old Japanese, and Vietnamese. Green paint can be made by mixing yellow paint and blue tempera paint together. Green light, like all light, is quanta—composed of photons. The wavelength of green light is about 550 nanometers (one-billionth of a meter). Most leaves of growing plants, such as trees and bushes, are green. This is because there is a chemical in leaves, called chlorophyll, which is colored green.

The color defined as green in the CMYK color system used in printing, also known as pigment green, is the tone of green that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) cyan and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions. The purpose of the CMYK color system is to provide the maximum possible gamut of color reproducible in printing. The color indicated is only approximate as the colors of printing inks may vary. The color displayed is an approximation of the CMYK color on an RGB screen, and cannot replicate the color accurately.

The Munsell color system (Munsell 5G) includes a color defined as green. The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity), spaced uniformly in three dimensions in the elongated oval at an angle shaped Munsell color solid according to the logarithmic scale which governs human perception. The Munsell colors displayed are only approximate as they have been adjusted to fit into the sRGB gamut.

Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.

Lawn Green is a bright, vivid shade of green that resembles freshly cut grass, often associated with vibrant nature. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

Persian green is a color used in Persian pottery and Persian carpets in Iran. The first recorded use of Persian green as a color name in English was in 1892.

This is a variation of acid green mentioned on Wikipedia. Acid green is a shade of yellow-green. Sources differ as to the exact color.

Green (Pantone) is the color that is called green in Pantone. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list.

Dark green is a dark shade of green

Dartmouth green is the official color of Dartmouth College, adopted in 1866. It was chosen for being the only decent primary color that had not been taken already. It is prominently used as the name of the Dartmouth College athletic team, the Dartmouth Big Green. The Dartmouth athletic teams adopted this new name after the college officially discontinued the use of its unofficial mascot, the Dartmouth Indian, in 1974.

Green (Crayola) is the color called green in Crayola crayons. Green was one of the original Crayola crayons introduced in 1903.

Bottle green is a dark shade of green, similar to pine green. It is a representation of the color of green glass bottles. The first recorded use of bottle green as a color name in English was in 1816. Bottle green is a color in Prismacolor marker and pencil sets. It is also the color of the uniform of the Police Service of Northern Ireland replacing the Royal Ulster Constabulary's "rifle green" colored uniforms in 2001. It is also the green used in uniforms for South Sydney High School in Sydney. Bottle green is also the color most associated with guide signs and street name signs in the United States. Bottle green is also the background color of the Flag of Bangladesh, as defined by the government of Bangladesh. Another name for this color is Bangladesh 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.

Castleton green is one of the two official colors of Castleton University in Vermont. The official college colors are green (PMS 343) and white. The Castleton University Office of Marketing and Communications created the Castleton colors for web and logo development and has technical guidelines, copyright and privacy protection; as well as logos and images that developers are asked to follow in the college's guidelines for using official Castleton logos. If web developers are using green on a university website, they are encouraged to use Castleton green. It is prominently used for representing Castleton's athletic teams, the Castleton Spartans.

The color defined as green in HTML/CSS color standard is the color called green, low green, or medium green in many of the older eight-bit computer palettes. Another name for this color is green W3C or office green.

One definition of the blue-green color comes from the Munsell color system, where it is classified as "Munsell 5BG." However, the term is widely recognized due to its association with blue-green algae, which have been known and described since at least the 18th century, and likely even earlier.

Green (Crayola) is the color called green in Crayola crayons. Green was one of the original Crayola crayons introduced in 1903.

Pakistan green is a shade of dark green, used in web development and graphic design. It is also the background color of the national flag of Pakistan. It is almost identical to the HTML/X11 dark green in sRGB and HSV values.

Sap green is a green pigment that was traditionally made of ripe buckthorn berries. However, modern colors marketed under this name are usually a blend of other pigments, commonly with a basis of Phthalocyanine Green G. Sap green paint was frequently used on Bob Ross's TV show, The Joy of Painting.

Spring green is a web color, common to X11 and HTML.

Jungle green is a rich tone of medium spring green. The specific tone called "jungle green" by Crayola was formulated in 1990. The first recorded use of jungle green as a color name in English dates back to 1926.

In 2004, California State University, Sacramento rebranded itself as Sacramento State, while keeping the official name as the long form. In the process of rebranding a new logo was selected, and in 2005 it formalized the colors which it would use.

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.

Gotham green is the official color of the New York Jets as of 4 April 2019. The name is a reference to one of the Nicknames of New York City.

The web color Medium Sea Green is a medium shade variation of 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.

Caribbean green is a Crayola color formulated in 1997.

Hooker's green is a dark green color created by mixing Prussian blue and gamboge. Hooker's green takes its name from botanical artist William Hooker (1779–1832) who first created it particularly for illustrating leaves.

Aero blue is a fluorescent greenish-cyan color. Aero blue was used as rainshower in one of the Sharpie permanent markers but not as bright on the marker. However, there is no mechanism for showing fluorescence on a computer screen.

SGBUS green is the color voted by the public and used by Singapore to color all its government-owned public buses.

The color green (Arabic: أخضر) has a number of traditional associations in Islam. In the Quran, it is associated with Islamic paradise. It was also chosen as a color by pro-Alid (Shi'a) factions. Thus in 817, when the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun adopted the Alid Ali al-Ridha a his heir-apparent, he also changed the dynastic color from black to green. The change was reverted al-Ma'mun had Ali killed, and returned to Baghdad in 819. Green remains particularly popular in Shi'ite iconography, but it is also widely used in by Sunni states. It is notably used in the flag of Saudi Arabia and flag of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.

Spanish green is the color that is called "verde" (the Spanish word for "green") 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.

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 source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-6442 TPX—Bud Green.

This is the color bright green.

Shamrock green is a tone of green that represents the color of shamrocks, a symbol of Ireland. The first recorded use of shamrock as a color name in English was in the 1820s (exact year uncertain). This green is also defined as Irish green Pantone 347. This green is used as the green on the national flag of Ireland. It is customary in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States to wear this or any other tone of green on St. Patrick's Day, 17 March. The State of California uses this shade of green of the grass under the bear on their state flag. The Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association use this shade for their uniforms, logos, and other memorabilia.

Green-blue was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Yellow-green is a dull medium shade of chartreuse. Before the X11 colors were formulated in 1987, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (chartreuse green). Now, the term "yellow-green" is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.

Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value. It is composed of a majority of green, followed by blue. Specifically, it is a shade of spring green, which places the color between green and teal on the color wheel, or, in paint, a tertiary blue–green color. Viridian takes its name from the Latin viridis, meaning "green". The first recorded use of viridian as a color name in English was in the 1860s (exact year uncertain).

Dark Olive Green is a muted green with a hint of brown, evoking the color of olive leaves and dark forests. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

This pale tone of spring bud is the color called spring green in Crayola crayons.

Sap green is a green-looking pigment that was traditionally made of ripe buckthorn berries. However, modern colors marketed under this name are usually a blend of other pigments, commonly with a basis of Phthalocyanine Green G. It is one of the greens used in The Joy of Painting.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-5126 TPX—Viridian Green.

Midnight green (sometimes also called Eagle green) is a dark cyan. It (or more specifically #004C54) has been the primary team color for the National Football League (NFL)'s Philadelphia Eagles since 1996.

NIVO, short for Night Invisible Varnish Orfordness, was a dark grey-green finish applied to British night bomber aircraft between 1918 and 1939. It was developed in 1918 at Orford Ness to help make planes less visible at night, with a sheen that blended in with moonlit water. NIVO was used on various bombers like the Vickers Virginia, Handley Page Hyderabad, and others. By the mid-1930s, it was found to be too reflective under searchlights and was phased out before the introduction of newer bombers like the Vickers Wellington.

Hunter green is a color that is a representation of the color worn by hunters in the 19th century. Most hunters began wearing the color olive drab instead of hunter green about the beginning of the 20th century. Some hunters still wear hunter green clothing or hunter green bandanas. The first recorded use of hunter green as a color name in English was in 1892.

Green and white are the primary school colors representing Michigan State University. The university board of trustees officially standardized MSU green as part of a larger university branding effort, replacing a lighter green (PMS 341) used from 1997 to 2010. The official color was chosen based on the traditional darker Spartan green found on the original university varsity letter jackets and marching band jackets. The official green of Michigan State University is represented by Pantone Matching System ink color 567 (PMS 567).

Morning sky, also known as Morning blue is a representation of the color of the morning sky. The year of the first recorded use of morning blue as a color name in English is unknown.

It is a pale shade of cyan that is reminiscent of the color of an opal gemstone, although as with many gemstones, opals come in a wide variety of colors.