Nascent Drama

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— Color coordinates —

 

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Hex triplet #008000 (HTML/CSS)
#00FF00 (X11)

 

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sRGBB (r, g, b) (0, 128~255, 0)

 

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HSV (h, s, v) (120°, 100%, 50~100%)

 

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Source HTML/CSS[4]
X11 color names[5]

 

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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 

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Etymology and definitions

 

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The word green comes from the Old English word grene, or, in its older form, groeni.

 

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This adjective is closely related to the Old English verb growan (“to grow’) and goes back into Western Germanic and Scandinavian languages.[7]

 

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The word designates the color on the visible light spectrum situated between blue and yellow.

 

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It is often used to describe foliage and the sea, and has become a symbol of environmentalism.

 

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It also is combined with other color names to increase specificity, as in “blue-green”, or with objects, as in “emerald green”.

 

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Green is also used to describe jealousy and envy, as well as anyone young, inexperienced, or gullible (probably by analogy to unripe, i.e. unready or immature, fruit).[1]

 

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Green is sometimes associated with nausea and sickness.[8]

 

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Lastly, green can communicate safety to proceed, as in traffic lights.[2]

 

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Overall, greens, along with blues and purples, are frequently described as “cool” colors, in contrast to red and yellow.[9]

 

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Some languages have no word separating green from blue (see blue-green across cultures).[9]

 

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The word green is found in several colloquial phrases derived from these meanings: in golf, the region of grass around the hole is trimmed short and referred to as the putting green, or simply, the green.[1]

 

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Someone who works well with plants is said to have a green thumb or green fingers, a physically-ill person is said to look green around the gills, and the word greenhorn refers to an inexperienced person.[2]

 

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A company is greenwashing if they advertise positive environmental practices to cover up environmental destruction.[10]