May 5th, 2020

Prompt: Set your timer for ten minutes. Find the first letter of your first name and write something that
evokes the equivalent color. Do NOT STATE THE COLOR.L=Purple

Purple is typically associated with royalty.

The colour symbolises some of the following:

Power

Luxury

Ambition

Wisdom

DIgnity

Creativity

Magic

First letter of your last name = color.

H= Laser Lemon (used to be named Chartreuse - halfway between yellow and green, named after the
French liquor)

For Found Poem:

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]

Nyanza

Nyanza - very pale mint green

About these coordinates 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 descriptor Very 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 - darker yellow pea green

About these coordinates 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%)

Source Xona.com

ISCC–NBS descriptor Brilliant 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,[citation needed] when it was formulated
as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.[21]

Pear

Pears

Pears

Pear

About these coordinates 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 descriptor Vivid 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 - flourescent color used by sprite and 7 up

About these coordinates 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%)

Source Sprite[citation needed]

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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

About these coordinates 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%)

Source Maerz & Paul[18]

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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 Tillia; Malvaceae).

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

About these coordinates 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%)

Source X11[23]

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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

About these coordinates 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%)

Source Maerz and Paul[24]

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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

About these coordinates Color coordinates

Hex triplet #7CFC00

sRGBB (r, g, b) (124, 252, 0)

HSV (h, s, v) (90°, 98%, 48%)

Source X11

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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 - dark mint green

About these coordinates 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%)

Source ISCC-NBS

ISCC–NBS descriptor Strong 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 - yellower than pistachio

About these coordinates Color coordinates

Hex triplet #9ACD32

sRGBB (r, g, b) (154, 205, 50)

HSV (h, s, v) (90°, 60%, 54%)

Source X11

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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

About these coordinates 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%)

Source ISCC-NBS

ISCC–NBS descriptor Vivid 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 - nearly green grey

About these coordinates 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%)

Source ISCC-NBS

ISCC–NBS descriptor Moderate 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

Green sea turtle grazing on sea grass

Avocado

An avocado

Avocado

About these coordinates 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%)

Source Pourpre.com

ISCC–NBS descriptor Deep 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

About these coordinates 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%)

Source X11 color names

ISCC–NBS descriptor Light 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.[citation needed]

Kombu green

Kombu from the kelp species Saccharina japonica, the source of most kombu

Kombu green - green that is almost black.

About these coordinates 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%)

Source Pantone TPX[30]

ISCC–NBS descriptor Dark 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

Yellow-green algae, also called xanthophytes, are a class of algae in the Heterokontophyta division. Most
live in freshwater, but some are found in marine and soil habitats. They vary from single-celled flagellates
to simple colonial and filamentous forms. Unlike other heterokonts, the chloroplasts of yellow-green
algae do not contain fucoxanthin, which is why they have a lighter color.

In popular culture

Traffic safety

Chartreuse yellow is used on traffic safety vests to provide increased visibility for employees working
near traffic. The chartreuse yellow background material, together with a retro-reflective satisfy the ANSI
107-2010 standard since 1999. Traffic Safety vest ANSI Standards were adopted as an OSHA
(Occupational Safety Health Administration) requirement in 2008 (23 CFR part 634)
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

In 2012, Chelsea Handler began to author a spoof on the popular book series Fifty Shades of Grey called
50 Shades of Chartreuse: This Time It's Personal.[36]

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

When Bharatpur State was a princely state, it was the only political entity ever to have a chartreuse
yellow-colored flag.[40]

Video games

The Chartreuse Hall is a hydroponics section in the game The Operative: No One Lives Forever, in the Low
Earth Orbit mission.[41]

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