 | This article's factual accuracy is disputed. (November 2020) |
| Spring green | |
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 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #00FF80 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 255, 128) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (150°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (88, 109, 137°) |
| Source | RGB and CMYK color systems. The colour halfway between green and cyan on the RGB color wheel has a hex code of 00FF80. |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | |
Spring green is a color that was traditionally considered to be on the yellow side of green, but in modern computer systems based on the RGB color model is halfway between cyan and green on the color wheel.
The modern spring green, when plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram, corresponds to a visual stimulus of about 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. In HSV color space, the expression of which is known as the RGB color wheel, spring green has a hue of 150°. Spring green is one of the tertiary colors on the RGB color wheel, where it is the complementary color of rose.
The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766, referring to roughly the color now called spring bud.[1]
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Color Sample of Spring Green: Page 59 Plate 18 Color Sample J7 (Note: Before the invention in 1987 of the X11 color spring green (which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 web color spring green), Spring Green was thought of as a light green tinted toward the yellow; this color is now called spring bud, and it is the color that is shown in the color sample in Maerz and Paul as Spring Green, instead of the web color spring green halfway between green and cyan.)