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Green is a primary color in many models of color space, and a secondary in all others. It is most often used to represent nature , healing , health , youth , or fertility , since it is such a dominant color in nature.
Japanese also has two terms that refer specifically to the color green, 緑 (midori, which is derived from the classical Japanese descriptive verb midoru "to be in leaf, to flourish" in reference to trees) and グリーン (guriin, which is derived from the English word "green").
The color defined as green in the RGB color model is the brightest green that can be reproduced on a computer screen, and is the color named green in X11. It is one of the three primary colors used in the RGB color space along with red and blue.
Viridian is a bright shade of spring green, which places the color between green and teal on the color wheel, or, in paint, a tertiary blue–green color. Viridian is dark in value, has medium saturation, and is transparent . [4] : 275.
Chartreuse (US: / ʃ ɑːr ˈ t r uː z,-ˈ t r uː s / ⓘ, UK: /-ˈ t r ɜː z /, French: [ʃaʁtʁøz] ⓘ), also known as yellow-green or greenish yellow, is a color between yellow and green. It was named because of its resemblance to the French liqueur green chartreuse , introduced in 1764.
The general model of color psychology relies on six basic principles: Color can carry a specific meaning. Color meaning is either based in learned meaning or biologically innate meaning. The perception of a color causes evaluation automatically by the person perceiving.
Green was also historically used as a secondary colour by the left-wing New Democratic Party, whose primary colour is orange. In Denmark, a dark shade of green is used by the right-centre Conservative People's Party (Det Konservative Folkeparti).
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.
A vertical tricolour of green, white and orange. The national flag of Ireland ( Irish : bratach na hÉireann ), frequently referred to in Ireland as 'the tricolour' ( an trídhathach ) and elsewhere as the Irish tricolour is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist ), white and orange.
Green pigments are the materials used to create the green colors seen in painting and the other arts. Most come from minerals, particularly those containing compounds of copper . Green pigments reflect the green portions of the spectrum of visible light, and absorb the others.