Spring green

Spring green is a <a href="/facts/Color/XDvW7ESP">color</a> that was traditionally considered to be on the <a href="/facts/Yellow/KrLNgk4v">yellow</a> side of <a href="/facts/Green/gFTac7St">green</a>, but in modern computer systems based on the <a href="/facts/RGB_color_model/3Be0zwCj">RGB color model</a> is halfway between <a href="/facts/Cyan/AXtegEzm">cyan</a> and green on the <a href="/facts/Color_wheel/RxVBIr7g">color wheel</a>.
The modern spring green, when plotted on the <a href="/facts/CIE_chromaticity_diagram/fzgwzV8V">CIE chromaticity diagram</a>, corresponds to a visual stimulus of about 505 <a href="/facts/Nanometer/a98sjHyu">nanometers</a> on the <a href="/facts/Visible_spectrum/frPBh8o5">visible spectrum</a>. In <a href="/facts/HSV_color_space/opaXI7FM">HSV color space</a>, the expression of which is known as the RGB color wheel, spring green has a <a href="/facts/Hue/9qufc1ap">hue</a> of 150°. Spring green is one of the <a href="/facts/Tertiary_color/HeQmGXjJ">tertiary colors</a> on the RGB color wheel, where it is the <a href="/facts/Complementary_color/XDAx27pR">complementary color</a> of <a href="/facts/Rose_(color)/ogRMPvnf">rose</a>.
The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766, referring to roughly the color now called spring bud.

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Spring green