Persian green
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Persian green is a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran.
Other colours associated with Persia include Persian red and Persian blue.
[edit] Persian green
| Persian green | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #00A693 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (0, 166, 147) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (135°, 75%, 60%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
The color persian green is named from the green color of some Persian pottery and is a representation of the color of the mineral malachite. It is a popular color in Iran because the color green symbolizes Islam.
The first recorded use of Persian green as a color name in English was in 1892. [1]
The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps, now on the Internet--see sample of the color Persian green (color sample #159) displayed on indicated web page: [1].
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201; color sample of Persian green: Page 85 Plate 31 Color Sample H7
