Chartreuse (color)
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§:For the liqueur chartreuse, see chartreuse (liqueur).
Chartreuse is a color that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse. [1]
The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow.
A Crayola crayon named Chartreuse was created in 1972, but it was the incorrect color, a red-orange shade. It was renamed Atomic Tangerine in 1990.
The complementary (opposite) color of chartreuse is violet.
#7FFF00
Chartreuse
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[edit] Chartreuse
| Chartreuse | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #7FFF00 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (127, 255, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (90°, 100%, 100%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
At right is displayed the color chartreuse. This color is also called chartreuse red.
The term chartreuse was first used to refer to this color (the color halfway between green and yellow) in the 1990s. Before that, this color was called yellow-green. John Escosa was the first man to use this term in relation to this color.[citation needed]
The first recorded use of chartreuse as a color name in English (in the original sense of chartreuse, meaning the color that is now called chartreuse yellow) was in 1892.[1]
[edit] Chartreuse versus chartreuse yellow
Before the web color chartreuse was invented in the 1990s, the color name chartreuse always referred to a much more yellowish green color that is today called chartreuse yellow to distinguish it from the color displayed in this article.
Since many people (especially those in the baby boom generation and older, but also some younger people) still think of the term chartreuse as referring to what is nowadays called chartreuse yellow, it may be necessary to carefully distinguish between the two colors by referring to the color described in this article as chartreuse green when speaking to or writing for certain audiences (especially those not involved in web site design or the computer industry) to avoid any confusion.
[edit] Chartreuse in human culture
- Chartreuse may be used in advertising for greengrocers or farmers markets.
- Chartreuse represents green chartreuse liqueur. [2]
- The Chartreuse Mountains are located north of Grenoble, France.
- La Chartreuse de Parme (English: The Charterhouse of Parma) is a famous novel by 19th century French writer Stendhal.
- The Girl from the Chartreuse is a book by Pierre Péju and also the title of the adapted film by Jean-Pierre Denis.
- Chartreuse is often used on the plastic bags that hold pre-packaged mixed salad greens in supermarkets.
- Chartreuse (as well as green) may be used to represent the Green movement.
- The Grande Chartreuse is a Roman Catholic Carthusian monastery in the Chartreuse mountains
- Favourite Color of That's So Raven Character, Chelsea Daniels.
- In the television show, The Angry Beavers, Norbert's girlfriend Treeflower fronts for a band called "The Friendly Chartreuse Bubble Gum Machine."
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192
