Spring green
Spring green (#00FF7F)
Spring green is a color included on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram it corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. Spring green is a pure chroma on the color wheel. In HSV color space, the expression of which is known as the RGB color wheel, spring green has a hue of 150°. Spring green is one of the tertiary colors on the RGB color wheel.
The complementary color of spring green is rose.
Displayed at right is the color spring green.
Spring green is a web color.
The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766.
Variations of spring green
Mint cream
Displayed at right is the web color mint cream, a pale pastel tint of spring green.
The color mint cream is a representation of the color of the interior of an after dinner mint (which is disc shaped with mint flavored buttercream on the inside and a chocolate coating on the outside).