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. Indeed, if there are only two hundred fifty six of them in the RGB computer color palette, then the human eye can distinguish them from several thousand, and some animals see tens of thousands of tones. Therefore, it is worth mentioning only the most common shades.
His Majesty 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 ancient times, green was considered a symbol of life. It is noteworthy that in Christianity (Orthodoxy) he was a symbol of many saints and blessed ones. Therefore, often the icons were drawn in green. And in Islam, in general, green is the sacred color of religion itself; it is colorfully chanted in the Qur'an.
In printing, in order to get a full-fledged green color, you must either mix one hundred percent blue and as much 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 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
The light green color (coordinates # 99ff99), or, as the right saying, yellow-green, is familiar to everyone. His “popular” nickname comes from the name of an annual herbaceous plant called lettuce.
Light green color refers to light shades of green, only slightly different from the classic tone of greenery. In English, this color is called light green.
In turn, the light green tone has its own shades of green. The palette, the names of these shades have several dozen names, and even more nameless shades. Lime ordinary, French, green and electric; Chartreuse pear (regular and yellow), neon green and the color of a green meadow - these are just a small list of the most famous colors of light green.
It is interesting that psychologists experimentally proved that only light green color and its shades tend to have a positive effect 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 colors.
Aquamarine and Turquoise
Unlike light green, aquamarine (coordinates # 7FFFD4) and turquoise (coordinates # 30D5C8) are not directly green: they are transitional shades of blue-green . Their names are also the most diverse, especially when you consider that some of the colors belong to the blue palette, and some to the green.
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 pearls.
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, then the emerald color (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 in the exact same way as these names are 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 a shade of red sea.
Olive and pistachio
Names of shades of green, such as olive (coordinates # 808000) and pistachio (coordinates # BEF574), refer to warm colors. It is noteworthy that they both came from the name of the plant. However, unlike light green, they are darker.
The olive tone is correctly called "dark yellow-green color." Its standard is the color of the fruit of the olive tree. As a rule, to get this shade, yellow and black tones are added to green. Sometimes an olive green palette can be very close to beige tones.
Olive tones include not only its dark and light varieties, but also the colors called olive wreath, olive feast and the whisper of the forest, heavenly freshness, the noise of herbs (although the last tone can be attributed to pistachio color in the same way).
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. Unfortunately, not everyone has a name. In most cases, for convenience, each color and its shade has a certain digital value, knowing that it is easy to find the tone in a catalog or play on a computer in one of the graphics programs. However, to do this, you must first know the basic shades of green, since all the others are just their varieties.