From turquoise to olive: the names of shades of green

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Green is one of the three most common colors in nature. In addition, there are countless shades of it. It is very difficult to list all the names of shades of green. After all, if there are only two hundred and fifty-six of them in the RGB computer color palette, then the human eye is able to distinguish several thousand of them, and some animals see tens of thousands of tones. Therefore, it is worth mentioning only the most common shades.

His Majesty is green

To admire the whole palette of green, just walk along the lawn or in the park on a sunny summer or spring day. Then you can see all of it, because thanks to the chlorophyll contained in the leaves, most plants have such an amazing shade.

In the old days, green was considered a symbol of life. It is noteworthy thatin Christianity (Orthodoxy), he was a symbol of many saints and blessed. Therefore, icons were often painted in green tones. And in Islam, in general, green is the sacred color of the religion itself, it is colorfully sung in the Koran.

In printing, to get a full-fledged green color, you must either mix one hundred percent blue and the same amount of yellow (for CMYK), or set the green value to two hundred and fifty-five (for RGB). And the color itself has coordinates 00FF00.

The most common shades of green

The names of all shades of green are very difficult to count, because there are about several thousand of them. However, you can focus on the most common of them, which, in turn, have a lot of their own colors.

So, the most common names for shades of green are light green, turquoise, aquamarine, emerald, olive and pistachio.

Light green

Light green color (coordinates99ff99), or, as it is correct to say, yellow-green, is familiar to everyone. Its "folk" nickname comes from the name of an annual herbaceous plant called "lettuce".

Light green refers to light shades of green, only slightly different from the classic tone of green. In English, this color is called light green.

In turn, the light green tone has its own shades of green. Palette, the names of these shades have severaldozens of names, and even more nameless shades. Lime regular, french, green and electric; chartreuse pear (regular and yellow), neon green and meadow green are just a few of the most famous colors of light green.

Interestingly, psychologists have experimentally proven that only light green color and its shades tend to have a positive effect on the development of the psyche of preschoolers. Perhaps for this reason, illustrations for children's books and computer games are full of light green colors.

Aquamarine and turquoise

Unlike the light green tone, aquamarine (coordinates 7FFFD4) and turquoise (coordinates 30D5C8) are not directly green: they are transitional shades of blue-green. Their names are also very diverse, especially considering that some of the colors refer to the blue palette, and some to the green.

So, there are light, dark, pale, bright and medium turquoise colors. Not to mention the color of the thrush egg, electric blue and turquoise pearls.

It is worth noting that the color aquamarine is often considered one of the shades of turquoise.

Fun fact: both turquoise and aquamarine are named after naturally occurring minerals.

Emerald

If light green is most positively perceived by preschoolers, then emerald green (coordinates 50C878) is one of the most pleasant for adults to perceive. And although it also belongs to the blue-green range, it stands apart from turquoise and aquamarine. Although for surejust like these names of shades of green, it comes from the name of the mineral - emerald.

Unlike the above colors, the emerald color does not have such a huge variety of names for its tones. Like turquoise, its shades range from light, bright and similar to dark emerald. There are also individual tones such as jade, dark spring green and sea red.

Olive and pistachio

Such green names as olive (coordinates 808000) and pistachio (coordinates BEF574) refer to warm tones. It is noteworthy that they both came from the name of plants. However, unlike light green, they are darker.

Olive tone is properly called "dark yellow-green". Its standard is the color of the fruits of the olive tree. As a rule, to get this shade, yellow and black tones are added to green. Sometimes an olive color palette can be very close to beige tones.

Olive tones include not only its dark and light varieties, but also colors called olive wreath, olive feast and whisper of the forest, heavenly freshness, the noise of herbs (although the last tone can be attributed to pistachio in the same way).

Pistachio color is quite similar to olive, but much lighter and often considered its shade. Its tones are very close to beige and light brown.

There are different colors of green shades. Unfortunately, not everyone has a name. In most cases, for convenience, each color and its shade has a certain digital value, knowing which, the tone can be easily found in the catalog or reproduced on a computer in one of the graphics programs. However, in order to do this, one must initially know the basic shades of green, since all others are just their varieties.