Green
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Green is considered one of the additive primary colors. It is the complement of magenta. It is all within a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm.
[edit] Shades of green
[edit] Electric green (web color lime)
| Green (X11 color) ("lime" in HTML/CSS) | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #00FF00 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 100%, 100%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
The color displayed at right, electric green is the brightest possible green that can be reproduced on a computer screen.[citation needed] This color is a close approximation of spectrum green, one of the three primary colors of light, along with red and blue.
Green takes up a large portion of the CIE chromaticity diagram because it is in the central area of human color perception.
When approximated (with less brightness) in pigments, this color is called bright green.
[edit] Kelly green
| Kelly Green | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #00A550 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (00, 165, 80) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 100%, 75%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
Kelly green, also known as grass green or pigment green, is achieved by mixing cyan and yellow in equal proportions. This is the color green that is shown in the diagram located at the bottom of the following website offering tintbooks for CMYK printing: [1].
This color is also called grass green. Colored pencils of the 1950s colored this were sometimes called grass green. Psychedelic art made people used to brighter colors of green, and pigment colors or colored pencils called "bright green" or "true green" are produced which approximate (with much less brightness that is possible on a computer screen) the electric green shown above.
[edit] Shamrock green (Irish green)
Shamrock green is the color of green used in the flag of Ireland, and therefore it is also called Irish green[citation needed]. It represents the color of Shamrocks in what is poetically called the "Emerald Isle" for its emerald-colored vegetation[citation needed].
This green is legally defined as Pantone 347[1], a proprietary color system which does not have a direct equivalent in sRGB.
It is customary in both Ireland and the United States to wear this shade of green, or any shade of green that one prefers, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, even if one is not of Irish descent.
[edit] Islamic green
| Islamic Green | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #009900 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (00, 153, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 90%, 60%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
Islamic green is the shade of green used in the Flag of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Green symbolizes Islam because the tribe of the prophet Muhammad had a green banner and because green represented paradise (the Persian word for garden) to desert-dwelling Bedouin tribes when they gathered at an oasis.
[edit] Office green (web color "green")
| Green (HTML/CSS color) | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #008000 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (0, 128, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (120°, 80%, 50%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
The conservative shade of green shown at right, office green, was the original color designated as "green" for computer displays in the 1980s[citation needed].
It was apparently chosen because it is the color of the green-colored pencils used by accountants and the color of green office file cabinets[citation needed].
[edit] Green in nature
Green is common in nature, especially in plants. Many plants are green mainly because of a complex chemical known as chlorophyll which is involved in photosynthesis.
Some animals are green: these include some frogs, toads, some turtles some lizards and amphibians, some snakes, some birds such as parrots, caterpillars and some insects such as praying mantids.
Green algae and green plankton are important food sources at the bottom of the food chain.
[edit] Green in human culture
[edit] Advertising
- The Jolly Green Giant is a well-known character used in advertising vegetables.
[edit] City Planning
- In City Planning, parks are called green space.
[edit] Computers
- The Green Screen was the common name for a monochrome CRT computer display using a green P1 Phosphor screen.
[edit] Cultural Expressions
- Jealousy is called the green-eyed monster (after a phrase in Shakespeare's Othello).
- An inexperienced person is sometimes known as green, probably by analogy to unripe (i.e. unready, immature) fruit. The word greenhorn also refers to an inexperienced person.
[edit] Environmentalism
- Green is used to mean environmentally friendly. For example, green cars are vehicles that have extremely low emissions that are harmful to the environment. The different types of green cars include hybrid, electric, ethanol, biodiesel, natural gas, and high MPG gasoline cars.
[edit] Film
- Soylent Green is a 1973 horror / science fiction film, named for the green-colored food that is its central plot element.
[edit] Finance
- In the United States, green symbolizes money the color on the back of U.S. currency, giving rise to the slang term greenback for dinero. Therefore, in areas that use the U.S. Dollar as currency, green carries a connotation of money, wealth, and capitalism. This is especially true in the U.S., but the use of the dollar worldwide makes green a worldwide symbol of wealth, along with the color gold.
- In North American stock markets, green is used to denote a rise in stock prices. In East Asian stock markets, however, green is used to denote a drop in stock prices.
[edit] Firefighting
- Fire escape exit signs are green in Puerto Rico, but red in Mexico.
[edit] Gardening
- Someone who works well with plants is said to have a green thumb.
[edit] Heraldry
[edit] History
- A Green Party (or Faction) existed in the Byzantine Empire for a while, but of course it had nothing to do with modern Greens. Rather, it developed out of a kind of chariot racing fan club whose drivers used the color green to distinguish themselves from the opposing Blue Party. The "Green Party" represented the "liberals" (artisans, workmen, and small shopkeepers), whereas the "Blue Party" represented the "conservatives" (the military, the wealthy merchants, and the Imperial bureaucracy.[citation needed]
[edit] Holidays
- Green is one of the Christmas colors, usually with red and sometimes also with white and gold and/or silver.
- Green represents, of course, St. Patrick's Day.
[edit] Linguistics
- Green is the symbol of the Esperanto language. The color is particularly associated with the green star, and is seen too on the Esperanto flag.
[edit] Literature (Fantasy)
- In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy and her friends must travel to the Emerald City to meet the famous wizard.
[edit] Literature (Mainstream)
- In Dante's Divine Comedy, green is the color used to symbolize hope.
[edit] Literature (Science Fiction)
- In the science fiction novels of Robert Heinlein, the planetary anthem of Earth is called The Green Hills of Earth.
- Aliens (of the extraterrestrial variety) are sometimes referred to metaphorically in general as little green men (even though, of course, they are visualized as being many different colors in stories, comic books, films, video games, or TV shows depicting them).
[edit] Medicine
- The color green is often used as a symbol of sickness. Cartoons often show a character as being sick with a green face.
- People who are feeling ill are sometimes referred to as "green around the gills".
- For patients being treated with Medical marijuana, Green is a slang term for cannabis, due to the color of the plant material.
- Substances that may impart a greenish hue to one's skin include biliverdin, the green pigment in bile, and ceruloplasmin, a protein that carries copper ions in chelation.
[edit] Military
- In the United States Army, green is the color of the Military Police, whereas jungle green is the color of the United States Army Special Forces or "Green Berets".
- Because of its camouflage properties, green is typically used for the field uniforms for many military services. It is also used as the dress uniform for many land forces and marines.
- In many countries, especially those in the former Soviet bloc, green is the color of the border guard.
- "Being Green" can either mean someone who is new or someone who is overwhelmed and prone to desertion.
- The Green Zone is a 10 km² (4 mile²) area in central Baghdad that was the center of the Coalition Provisional Authority and remains the center of United States and other international military presence in the city.
[edit] Music
- Green Day is a band that was part of the early 90's punk/pop punk resurgence.
- The Green Green Grass of Home (Claude "Curly" Putman Jr.) is a country song originally made popular by Tom Jones in 1966.
- Bein' Green — a popular song by Kermit the Frog.
[edit] National Colors
- Green is a symbol of Ireland, which is often referred to as "the Emerald Isle". The color is particularly identified with the republican and nationalist traditions in modern times. It is used this way on the flag of the Republic of Ireland, in balance with the Protestant orange.
- Green, red, and white are the colors of Mexico, Italy, and Iran.
- Green, red, white, and black are known as the Arab colors.
[edit] New Age Philosophy
- In the metaphysics of the New Age Prophetess, Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical personality types, the third ray of creative intelligence is represented by the color green.
- Green is used to symbolically represent the fourth (Anahata) chakra.
- Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that someone with a green aura is typically someone who is in an occupation related to health, such as a doctor or nurse, as well as people who are lovers of nature and the outdoors. [2]
[edit] Panelology
- The Green Lantern is a popular DC Comics superhero character.
- The Marvel Comics hero The Incredible Hulk is green-skinned.
[edit] Politics
- The Green Party is any of various political parties emphasizing environmental issues, grassroots democracy, pacifism, and social justice. The environmental lobby or ecology movement uses green because of its common occurrence in nature. Greenpeace, an ecological group, uses green because of its association with life and verdancy. Europeans who carry this into the political realm are called Greens: There are political parties known as "Green Parties" in over one hundred countries throughout the world (beginning primarily in Europe, though similar parties have taken root around the world). The more generic term "green party" is used for parties that emphasize environmentalism, but it is increasingly out of favour as the Global Greens have succeeded in uniting almost all such parties under a Global Green Charter. In the UK the ecology party became the Green Party.
- In the United States, especially in the state of Minnesota, green has been used by many Democratic candidates (blue, white, gold and green colors show up frequently in official state imagery in Minnesota), though it does not necessarily symbolize adherence to Green principles. Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Politicians to use green symbolically include U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Representative Keith Ellison and late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone. Wellstone was frequently and famously sympathetic to green causes.
- The Pan-Green Coalition in Taiwan.
- Green is the color generally associated with Plaid Cymru, the Welsh political party — but not for reasons of its political ideology.
- The flag of Hamas is green, symbolising their Islamist ideology.
[edit] Religion
- Green is considered the traditional color of Islam, likewise because of its association with nature. Muhammad is reliably quoted in a hadith as saying that "water, greenery, and a beautiful face" were three universally good things. Also, in the Qur'an, sura Al-Insan, followers of Allah in Jannah wear fine green silk [2][3].
- Bartholomew I of Constantinople is often referred to as "the Green Patriarch" because of the support he has caused the Ecumenical Patriarchate to place for maintenance and protection of the environment.
- In the Roman Catholic church, green is a traditional color of the sacred science of canon law.
[edit] Sexuality
- In high schools in the United States during the 1960s, it was widely believed that if someone wore green on Thursdays, it meant that they were homosexual. [3]
[edit] Sports
- Green Bay Packers fans are known to paint themselves green.
- British racing green is a popular color for cars. It was made famous by the likes of Bentley in the early 20th Century. It is the traditional color for land of the brave
- Green is the color symbolizing earth, nature, and in a broader sense, life.
- In Ancient China, green was the symbol of East and Wood, one of the main five colors.
- The emotion of envy is traditionally symbolized by the color green.
[edit] Theatre
- The green room is a room adjacent to the stage where performers and actors get ready for their performance.
[edit] Transportation
- Green symbolizes go in its use in traffic signals, railway signals and ship signals.
- In Japan, green indicates safety and luxury. As an example of safety, signs for emergency exits are green and white. For luxury, the Japan Railways system has green cars on trains; these have wider, reserved seats as well as other amenities, and carry a premium price.
- Green is the color of freeway directional signs in the United States and Australia, as well as most of the other nations of the world.
[edit] Vexillology
- The flag of Libya is plain green (the traditional color of Islam), the only current national flag of a single color.
[edit] Green pigments
- Charleston green
- Chartreuse
- Cobalt green
- Emerald green
- Malachite
- Sap green
- Terre verte (Glauconite)
- Verdigris
- Viridian
[edit] Food colorings
- Chlorophyll (E140 and E141)
- Quinoline (E104)
- Green S (E142), in countries where it is permitted
[edit] References
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- ^ Guidelines for Use of the National Flag (RTF), published by the Irish Government. Document retrieved 11 December 2006
- ^ Swami Panchadasi The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society Page 35
- ^ Grahn, Judy Another Mother Tongue New York:1990--Beacon Press: This book discusses the origins of this curious belief.
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| The Electromagnetic Spectrum | |
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(Sorted by wavelength, short to long)
Gamma ray • X-ray • Ultraviolet • Visible spectrum • Infrared • Terahertz radiation • Microwave • Radio waves |
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| Visible (optical) spectrum | Violet • Blue • Green • Yellow • Orange • Red |
| Microwave spectrum | |
| Radio spectrum | EHF • SHF • UHF • VHF • HF • MF • LF • VLF • ULF • SLF • ELF |
| Wavelength designations | |
| Web colors | black | silver | gray | white | red | maroon | purple | fuchsia | green | lime | olive | yellow | orange | blue | navy | teal | aqua |
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