Chartreuse (color)

Chartreuse (US: /ʃɑːrˈtruːz, -ˈtruːs/ (listen), UK: /-ˈtrɜːz/,[1] French: [ʃaʁtʁøz])[2] is a color between yellow and green that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called green chartreuse, introduced in 1764. Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green that was named because of its resemblance to the color of one of the French liqueurs called yellow chartreuse, introduced in 1838.[3]

Chartreuse as a tertiary color
  green
  chartreuse
  yellow

Chartreuse (traditional) (Chartreuse yellow) (#DFFF00)
#DFFF00

Chartreuse (web) (Chartreuse green) (#7FFF00)
#7FFF00

Etymology

The French word chartreuse means "charterhouse". The monasteries that the monks of the Carthusian order (who started producing Chartreuse liqueur in 1764) live in, of which the first one was established in 1082 by Saint Bruno, are called charter houses because they were chartered—and given generous material support—by the Duke of Burgundy known as Philip the Bold when he took over the area in 1378. Philip the Bold's elaborately decorated tomb was initially installed at a Carthusian charterhouse when he died in 1404.[4]

Chartreuse (web color)
Chartreuse (web color)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#7FFF00
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(127, 255, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(50, 0, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(90°, 100%, 100%)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellowish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Green Chartreuse liqueur

At right is displayed the web color chartreuse.

The term chartreuse is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: "A shade of colour; a pale apple-green". The dictionary gives a quotation in the British publication Western Daily Press (26 Dec. 1884) Vol. 7 No. 5 as being the earliest occurrence found in print of the term 'chartreuse' used as the name of a color. However the source does not define or describe the color referred to.[5]

In The Domestic Monthly (1885) is written, "The delicate, pale green, with a yellow tinge, entitled 'Chartreuse,' is a rival to the renewed apple green," and, "The new shade of Chartreuse green, from light to dark, is lovely in the large feather fans. ... Some of the corded silks have fancy stripes in a combination of colors such as ... mousse and Chartreuse, which is the stylish yellow green."[6]

In The Ladies' Home Journal of May 1889, is written, "Chantilly cloaks come shaped like the old-fashioned rotonde, with collar of narrow lace, and are worn over a lining of chartreuse green or jonquil yellow."[7]

In The Millinery Trade Review (1889) is written, "From Madame Catlin of Paris, a hat of velvet in moss-green of medium tone, or of strong Chartreuse-green."[8]

In The Mineral Industry (1898) is written, "The characteristic twin colors of a few doubly refractive gems will prove of interest ... tourmaline green (chartreuse green and bluish green).[9]

In Dry Goods Reporter (1905), it is noted under "Choosing an Easter Hat" — "Chartreuse greens are among the colors hardest of all to combine artistically, and yet with the new popular bluet are charming."[10]

In Pure Products (1910) is written, "The following colors can be bought in powder form ... chartreuse green".[11]

"Chartreuse Green" is also listed in Plochere Color System (1948).[12]

In a 1956 edition of Billboard, a jukebox is advertised as being available in "Delft blue, cherry red, embered charcoal, chartreuse green, bright sand, canary yellow, atoll coral and night-sky black."[13]

In Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names (1976), "Chartreuse Green" is listed under "116. Brilliant Yellow Green".[14]

Chartreuse green was codified to refer to this brighter color when the X11 colors were formulated in 1987; by the early 1990s, they became known as the X11 web colors. The web color chartreuse is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow. It is one of the tertiary colors of the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel. Another name for this color is chartreuse green.[15]

In 1988, Margaret Walch, director of the Color Association of the United States is reported to have said, "The hottest color out there now is an ugly chartreuse green.... It suggests what we don't have: nature, youth, energy, growth."[16]

Chartreuse yellow
Chartreuse (traditional)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#DFFF00
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(223, 255, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(13, 0, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(68°, 100%, 100%)
SourceMaerz and Paul[17]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellowish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
A bottle of chartreuse liqueur

The first recorded use of chartreuse for the color that is now called chartreuse yellow in American English was in 1892.[18]

In the book Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912), "Chartreuse Yellow" is listed and illustrated.[19]

Variations of chartreuse

Nyanza
Nyanza
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#E9FFDB
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(233, 255, 219)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(9, 0, 14, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(97°, 14%, 100%)
Source[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVery light yellowish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color nyanza is displayed at right.

The first recorded use of nyanza as a color name in English was in 1892.[20]

Mindaro
Mindaro
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#E3F988
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(227, 249, 136)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(9, 0, 45, 2)
HSV       (h, s, v)(72°, 45%, 98%)
SourceXona.com
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrilliant yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color mindaro.

The first use in English of the color name mindaro was in 2001, when it was formulated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.[21]

Pear
Pears
Pear
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#D1E231
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(209, 226, 49)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(8, 0, 78, 11)
HSV       (h, s, v)(66°, 78%, 88%)
Source[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Pear is a desaturated chartreuse yellow color that resembles the color of the exterior surface of Anjou or Bartlett pears.

Lemon-lime
Main article: Lime (color)
Lemon-lime
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#E3FF00
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(227, 255, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(11, 0, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(67°, 100%, 100%)
SourceSprite
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Lemon-lime is a fluorescent chartreuse color that refers to a theoretical combination of the two colors of the lemon and lime fruit rinds. Such a name might have been popularized by the advertising of various carbonated soft drinks such as Sprite, 7 Up and Sierra Mist, although all three of these drinks actually appear clear and colorless.

Lime
Main article: Lime (color)
Limes
Lime
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#BFFF00
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(191, 255, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(25, 0, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(75°, 100%, 100%)
SourceMaerz & Paul[18]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Lime is a color that is sometimes referred to as a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. However, in its original form, it referred to the colour of the samara fruits of the lime or linden tree (species in the genus Tilia).

The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890.[22][18]

Green-yellow
Main article: Shades of green § Green-yellow
Green-yellow
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#ADFF2F
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(173, 255, 47)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(32, 0, 82, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(83°, 81%, 100%)
SourceX11[23]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the web color green-yellow, a light tint of chartreuse.

Spring bud
Main article: Spring bud
Spring bud
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#A7FC00
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(167, 252, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(34, 0, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(88°, 90%, 63%)
SourceMaerz and Paul[24]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color spring bud.

This was the color that was traditionally called "spring green" before the web color spring green was formulated in 1987.

The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English (meaning the color that is now called spring bud) was in 1766.[25]

Lawn green
Lawn green
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#7CFC00
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(124, 252, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)(90°, 98%, 48%)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellowish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color lawn green, a bright tint of chartreuse.

Pistachio
Ripening pistachio culinary nuts
Pistachio
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#93C572
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(147, 197, 114)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(25, 0, 42, 23)
HSV       (h, s, v)(96°, 42%, 77%)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color pistachio, also called pistachio green, a representation of the color of the interior meat of a pistachio nut. It is also a representation of the color of pistachio ice cream, one of the flavors of ice cream in spumoni, and of pistachio pudding.

The first recorded use of pistachio green as a color name in English was in 1789.[26]

Yellow-green
Yellow-green
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#9ACD32
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(154, 205, 50)
HSV       (h, s, v)(90°, 60%, 54%)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color yellow-green, a dull medium shade of chartreuse.

Before the X11 colors were formulated in 1987, the color term yellow-green was used to refer to the color that is now designated as the web color chartreuse (chartreuse green), shown above. Now, the term "yellow-green" is used to refer to this medium desaturated shade of chartreuse.

The color of goose droppings is known as caca d'oie in French, and is a yellowish-green shade.[27]

Apple green
"Apple Green" redirects here. For other uses, see Apple Green (disambiguation).
A Granny Smith apple
Apple green as a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel
  green
  apple green
  chartreuse
Apple green
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#8DB600
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(141, 182, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(23, 0, 100, 29)
HSV       (h, s, v)(74°, 100%, 71%)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color apple green, a representation of the color of the outer skin of a Granny Smith apple. A darker version of this color has been used for the IRT Lexington Avenue Line since June 1979, when the NYCTA decided to assign line colors to all the routes within the major trunk lines in the Central Business District, plus different colors for services not entering Manhattan. By doing this, they scrapped the 1967 colors that were assigned separately to each service.

The first recorded use of apple green as a color name in English was in 1648.[28]

Turtle green
Turtle green
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#8A9A5B
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(138, 154, 91)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(10, 0, 41, 40)
HSV       (h, s, v)(75°, 41%, 60%)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color turtle green, a representation of the color of turtles.

Green sea turtle grazing on sea grass

Avocado
An avocado
Avocado
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#568203
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(86, 130, 3)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(34, 0, 98, 49)
HSV       (h, s, v)(81°, 98%, 51%)
SourcePourpre.com
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep yellow green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Avocado is a dark yellow-green color that is a representation of the color of the outer surface of an avocado.[29] Avocado, along with other earthy tones like harvest gold and burnt orange, was a common color for consumer goods like automobiles, shag carpets, and household appliances during the 1970s.[29]

Olive
Main article: Olive (color)
Green olives
Olive
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#808000
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(128, 128, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(0, 0, 100, 50)
HSV       (h, s, v)(60°, 100%, 50%)
SourceX11 color names
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight olive
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Olive is a dark shade of yellow typically seen on green olives. Shades of olive, such as olive drab or OD green, are frequently used for camouflage, or by the military in general. The complementary color of olive is light blue.

Kombu green
Kombu from the kelp species Saccharina japonica, the source of most kombu
Kombu green
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#354230
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(53, 66, 48)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)(20, 0, 27, 74)
HSV       (h, s, v)(103°, 27%, 26%)
SourcePantone TPX[30]
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark olive green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color kombu green is displayed at right.

The color kombu green is a representation of the color of kombu, edible kelp from the family Laminariaceae widely eaten in East Asia.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-0417 TPX—Kombu Green.[31]

Chartreuse in nature

Algae

Traffic safety

Electronics
  • The early green LEDs are now sometimes called chartreuse to distinguish them from more modern, deeper-green LEDs.[32]

Film
  • The 1960 Universal film Chartroose Caboose featured a "bright green" colored train car.[33]

Firefighting
ACT Fire and Rescue tankers in chartreuse green
  • Since about 1973, a sort of fluorescent chartreuse green has been adopted as the color of fire engines in parts of the United States and elsewhere. The use of chartreuse fire engines began when New York ophthalmologist Stephen Solomon produced research claiming that sparkling bright lime-green paint would boost the night time visibility of emergency vehicles compared to those painted the traditional fire engine red.[34][35] The reason for this is the Purkinje effect, i.e., the cones do not function as efficiently in dim light, so red objects appear to be black. In Australia and New Zealand this form of chartreuse yellow is also known as "ACT yellow" as this is the color of the fire engines in the Australian Capital Territory.

Literature

Music
  • Jazz and jump blues saxophonist, singer, and bandleader Louis Jordan recorded the song "(You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse" in 1950. Composed by J. Leslie McFarland and Billy Moore, Jr., the song is about a girl who dyes her hair "chartreuse." Although she thinks that the color is "mighty cute," the speaker suggests that the change of color is a ridiculous act of rebellion.[37][38]
  • A song on the Homestuck album The Felt is named Chartreuse Rewind, in reference to the color associated with the album, its subject matter, and by extension the traditional color of the felt on a billiards table.[39]
  • American blues-rock band ZZ Top recorded a song called "Chartreuse" for their 2012 album La Futura.
  • American indie-pop duo Capital Cities recorded a song called "Chartreuse" for their 2013 album In a Tidal Wave of Mystery.
  • In C. W. McCall's song "Convoy", one of the vehicles participating in the convoy is a chartreuse VW Microbus, which is assigned by the singer/speaker as an escort to a truck hauling dynamite (due to the microbus carrying "eleven long-haired friends of Jesus" and the dynamite truck needing "all the help it can get").
  • "Chartreuse" is a song on Ken Nordine's spoken word album Colors (1967).

Vexillology

Video games

Wrapping the spectrum into a color wheel

If the visible spectrum is wrapped to form a color wheel, chartreuse (additive tertiary) appears midway between yellow and green:

Visible spectrum wrapped to join green and yellow in an additive mixture of chartreuse
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gollark: I got a 6 in the møcks, which would be passing in the real exams.
gollark: I hope I don't have to do English exams though. I hate English Literature/Language the subjects and especially the exams. I got higher Latin and Ancient Greek grades than English in the mock exams.
gollark: Ah, so they're maybe postponed then and the government is being ambiguous.
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See also

References
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  2. Larousse, Éditions. "Translation : chartreux, chartreuse – french-english dictionary Larousse". www.larousse.com. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  3. "Green Chartreuse and Yellow Chartreuse". Chartreuse Liqueurs. Archived from the original on 2008-04-04. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  4. Kleiner, Fred S. (2010). Art Through the Ages, 13th ed., Boston: Wadsworth/Cengage, p. 398.
  5. The Oxford English Dictionary (Second ed.). 1989.
  6. The Domestic Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine of Fashion, Literature, and the Domestic Arts (1885) Vol. 23, pp. 162, 237, 368, Blake and Company, New York
  7. "New Fashions" (May 1889) The Ladies' Home Journal, Vol. 6, No. 6, p. 14, Philadelphia
  8. The Millinery Trade Review (Sep 1889) Vol. 14, No. 9, p. 18
  9. "The Identification of Gems" (1898) The Mineral Industry, Vol. 7, p. 283, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York and London
  10. "Latest Spring Millinery" (Apr 22, 1905) Dry Goods Reporter Vol. 35, No. 16 p. 33, Chicago
  11. "The Coloration of Liqueurs" (1910) Pure Products, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 278, Scientific Station for Pure Products, New York
  12. Gladys and Gustav Plochere (Dec 15, 1948) Plochere Color System in Book Form, a Guide to Color and Color Harmony, Los Angeles OCLC 5033214
  13. Billboard (Mar 24, 1956) p. 85
  14. Kenneth Low Kelly, Deane Brewster Judd (1976) Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names, p. 58, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards; Catalog record for Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names at the United States Library of Congress
  15. See the 1930s version of "Chartreuse green" in the index and color samples, a color not as green as the web color chartreuse, but greener than chartreuse yellow--actually it is a representation of the actual color of green chartreuse liqueur. The first recorded use of chartreuse green as a color name in English was in 1926--Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color Page 192; Color sample of Chartreuse Green: Page 47 Plate 12 Color Sample L2
  16. "Fashion Confusion" (June 20, 1988) New York Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 25
  17. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called chartreuse in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color chartreuse is displayed on page 45 Plate 11, Color Sample L1.
  18. Aloys John Maerz; Morris Rea Paul (1930) A Dictionary of Color, p. 192, New York: McGraw-Hill
  19. Robert Ridgway (1912) Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, p. 67, Published by the author, Washington D.C. OCLC 630954
  20. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197; Color Sample of Nyanza: Page 61 Plate 19 Color Sample C4 Note: This color originated as a textile color, as indicated by the small T after the name in the index.
  21. "Xona Games - Color List". xona.com. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  22. The Daily News (London) 14 July 1890. "lime, n2". Oxford English Dictionary online version. Oxford University Press. September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-15. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  23. "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  24. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called spring green in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color spring green is displayed on page 59, Plate 18, Color Sample J7.
  25. 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
  26. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Pistachio Green: Page 61 Plate 19 Color Sample C6
  27. Dumas, Firoozeh (May 4, 2010). "A Guide To The Gritty Side Of The French Language". My Guilty Pleasure. NPR Books. Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  28. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 189; Color Sample of Apple Green: Page 61 Plate 19 Color Sample J6
  29. St. Clair, Kassia (2016). The Secret Lives of Colour. London: John Murray. pp. 230–231. ISBN 9781473630819. OCLC 936144129.
  30. Type the words "Kombu Green" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear.
  31. "- Find a Pantone Color - Quick Online Color Tool". Pantone.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  32. "Green LED info wanted -- pure green, not yellow-green". Ask MetaFilter. Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  33. "N.Y. Times Overview of the film Chartroose Caboose". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  34. SIMON, STEPHANIE (7 July 1995). "The Green Firetruck Heresy : Some studies say red is not a safe color. But chartreuse just doesn't excite the masses. : City Smart / How to thrive in the urban environment of Southern California". Articles.latimes.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  35. Katley99 (4 July 2009). "East Longmeadow 4th of July Parade 2009". YouTube. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  36. "Chelsea Handler to write '50 Shades of Chartreuse'" (Sep 18, 2012) USA Today
  37. Jordan, Louis. "(You Dyed Your Hair) Chartreuse)." By J. Leslie McFarland and Blly Moore. Let the Good Times Roll: The Anthology 1938-1953. Rec. 1950. MCA, 1999.
  38. "Lyrics of the Louis Jordan song "(You Died Your Hair) Chartreuse"". Louisjordan.com. Archived from the original on 2015-11-24. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  39. "Chartreuse Rewind, by Homestuck". Homestuck.bandcamp.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  40. "Baratpur—Indian Princely State—the only political entity ever to have a chartreuse colored flag". Fotw.us. Archived from the original on 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  41. "No One Lives Forever Game Guide". Gamespot.com. 1996-08-20. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
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