Forest green

Forest green
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#228B22
sRGBB (r, g, b)(34, 139, 34)
HSV (h, s, v)(120°, 76%, 55%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(51, 70, 128°)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellowish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Forest green is a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest.

This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for website color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space).[1]

The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810.[2]

Ferns in a forest
Ferns in a forest

Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.

  1. ^ W3C. "SVG Color Keywords, CSS3 Color Module, W3C Candidate Recommendation 14 May 2003". Retrieved 2007-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195; color sample of Forest Green: Page 69 Plate 23 Color Sample L6