Chartreuse (web color) {{Infobox color 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. The term
chartreuse is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: "A shade of color; 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. "Chartreuse Green" is also listed in
Plochere Color System (1948). In
Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names (1976), "Chartreuse Green" is listed under "116. Brilliant Yellow Green". 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." 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." 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." 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). 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." In
Pure Products (1910) is written, "The following colors can be bought in powder form ... chartreuse green". 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." 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."
Chartreuse (traditional) {{infobox color The color displayed here matches the color called
chartreuse in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul
A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color
chartreuse is displayed on page 45 Plate 11, Color Sample L1. The first recorded use of
chartreuse for the color that is now called
chartreuse yellow in American English was in 1892. In the book
Color Standards and Color Nomenclature (1912), "Chartreuse Yellow" is listed and illustrated. ==Variations of chartreuse==