Chartreuse yellow
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Chartreuse yellow is the color that was traditionally known as chartreuse before the web color chartreuse was invented in the 1990s. Nowadays it is called chartreuse yellow to distinguish it from the web color.
[edit] Chartreuse yellow
| Chartreuse Yellow | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #DFFF00 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (223, 255, 0) |
| CMYKH | (c, m, y, k) | (14, 0, 100, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (67.5°, 100%, 100%) |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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At right is displayed the color chartreuse yellow.
The first recorded use of chartreuse as a color name in English (in the original sense of chartreuse, meaning what is here called chartreuse yellow) was in 1892. [1]
The color chartreuse yellow is 87.5% yellow and 12.5% green.
[edit] Chartreuse yellow in human culture
- Since about 1973, a sort of fluorescent chartreuse yellow has been adopted as the colour of fire engines in parts of the United States and elsewhere. The reason behind this is that chartreuse fire engines are more visible on the streets than the traditional red fire engines, especially at night (the reason for this is the Purkinje Effect, i.e., the cones do not function as efficiently as in dim light, so red objects appear to be black). In Australia and New Zealand this form of lime green is also known as "ACT Yellow" as this is the colour of the fire engines in the Australian Capital Territory.
- Since the mid 1960s, water based fluorescent chartreuse yellow paint has been available to paint psychedelic black light paintings. (Fluorescent chartreuse is one of the four main colors used, in addition to fluorescent red, cerise, magenta, blue, and green.)
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192; Color Sample: Page 45 Plate 11 Color Sample L1--Chartreuse
