Forest green | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #228B22 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (34, 139, 34) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (83, 21, 100, 8) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (120°, 76%, 55%) |
Source | X11 |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
At right is displayed the color forest green. Forest green refers to a green color said to resemble the color of the trees and other plants in a forest.
This web color, when written as computer code in HTML for web site color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space).
The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810.
Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.