From turquoise to olive: names of shades of green

Green is one of the three most common colors in nature. In addition, there are innumerable shades of it. It is not easy to list all the names of shades of green. After all, if in the computer color palette RGB there are only two hundred and fifty-six, then the human eye can distinguish them several thousand, 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 entire 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 olden times, green was considered a symbol of life. It is noteworthy that in Christianity (Orthodoxy) it was a symbol of many saints and blessed ones. Therefore, often icons were painted in green. And in Islam in general, green is the sacred color of religion itself, it is colorfully sung in the Koran.

In the printing industry, to get a full-fledged green color, you must either mix one hundred percent of blue and the same 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 recount, because they number about a few thousand. 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 lime, turquoise, aquamarine, emerald, olive and pistachio.

Light green

Green color (coordinates # 99ff99), or, properly speaking, yellow-green, is familiar to all. His "popular" nickname came from the name of a one-year herbaceous plant called "lettuce".

Light green color refers to light shades of green, just slightly different from the classical tone of greenery. In English, this color is called - light green.

In turn, the salad tone has its own shades of green. Palette, the names of these shades include several dozen names, and even more nameless shades. Lime is ordinary, French, green and electric; Pear Chartreuse (normal and yellow), neon-green and the color of the green meadow - that's just a small list of the most famous colors of the salad.

It is interesting that psychologists experimentally proved that only lime color and its shades have the property to exert a positive influence on the development of the psyche of preschool children. Perhaps, for this reason, illustrations for children's books and computer games are full of light green flowers.

Aquamarine and turquoise

In contrast to the salad tone, aquamarine (coordinates # 7FFFD4) and turquoise (coordinates # 30D5C8) are not directly green: these are transient shades of blue-green color. Their names are also very diverse, especially if one considers that some of the colors refer to the blue palette, and some to the green one.

So, there are light, dark, pale, bright and medium-turquoise colors. It is impossible not to mention the color of the egg thrush, electrician and turquoise pearl.

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

An interesting fact: both shades - both turquoise and aquamarine - are named after minerals of natural origin.

Emerald

If the green color is most positively perceived by preschoolers, the emerald color (coordinates # 50C878) is one of the most pleasant for adults to perceive. And although it also refers to the blue-green range, it stands apart, unlike turquoise and aquamarine. Although exactly the same as these names of shades of green , it came from the name of the mineral - the emerald.

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

Olive and pistachio

Such names of shades of green, like olive (coordinates # 808000) and pistachio (coordinates # BEF574), refer to warm tones. It is remarkable that they both originated from the name of the plants. However, unlike the salad, they are darker.

The olive tone is called properly "dark yellow-green color". Its standard is the color of the fruit of the olive tree. Typically, to get this shade, yellow and black tones are added to the green. Sometimes the olive palette can be very close to beige tones.

Olive tones include not only its dark and light varieties, but also colors called olive wreaths, olive feasts and the whisper of the forest, the paradise of freshness, the sound of grasses (although the latter tone can also be attributed to the pistachio color).

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

There are different colors of green shades. The name, unfortunately, is far from everyone. In most cases, for convenience, each color and its hue has a certain digital meaning, knowing which, the tone is easy to find in the catalog or reproduced on a computer in one of the graphics programs. However, to do this, you must first know the basic shades of green, since all others are just their varieties.