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Shades of green

Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation or intensity) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below. The color defined as green in the RGB color model is the brightest green that can be reproduced on a computer screen, and is the color named green in X11. It is one of the three primary colors used in the RGB color space along with red and blue. The three additive primaries in the RGB color system are the three colors of light chosen such as to provide the maximum range of colors that are capable of being represented on a computer or television set. This color is also called regular green. It is at precisely 120 degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel (). Its complementary color is magenta. HTML/CSS uses the name lime for this color, using green to refer to a darker shade. See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11. Green takes up a large portion of the CIE chromaticity diagram because it is in the central area of human color perception. The color defined as green in HTML/CSS color standard is the color called green, low green, or medium green in many of the older eight-bit computer palettes. Another name for this color is green W3C or office green. This is the X11/HTML color dark green. Light green is a light tint of green. Lime green is a web color. It is a vivid yellowish shade of green. This is the color bright green. This is the X11/HTML color pale green. Erin (color) The first recorded use of erin as a color name was in 1922. Harlequin is a color described as being located between green and yellow (closer to green than to yellow) on the color wheel.

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