Forest green explained

Forest green
Hex:	228B22
Source:	X11
Isccname:	Vivid yellowish green

Forest green is 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 website color display, is written in the form forestgreen (no space).^[1]

The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810.^[2] Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.

Shades

Forest green (Crayola)

Forest green (Crayola)
Hex:	5FA777
Source:	Crayola

Displayed at right is the color called "forest green" in Crayola crayons. Forest green has been a Crayola crayon name since 1958, when it was renamed from dark green.

Tropical rainforest

Tropical Rainforest
Hex:	00755E
Source:	Crayola
Isccname:	Moderate green

Displayed at right is the color tropical rainforest, a bluish-shade of forest green.

The color tropical rainforest was formulated by Crayola in 1993.

In culture

Cartography

Forest green is used to represent deciduous forest on maps depicting natural vegetation.

Environmentalism

Forest green may be used to represent the Green movement, especially in graphic design for environmental literature regarding issues having to do with forest conservation.
A forest green environmentalist (also called a dark green environmentalist) is an environmentalist who is seriously committed to environmentalism.^[3]

School colors

Forest green is one of the school colors of The Evergreen State College, Agincourt Collegiate Institute, Wagner College, Cass Technical High School, The Westminster Schools, Newark Arts High School (Newark, New Jersey), Canyon Lake High School, St Robert Catholic High School, Westlake High School, Mesa Verde High School (Citrus Heights, California), and Elk Grove High School (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).

Scouting

Forest green is used in the uniforms of the Boy Scouts of America, Venture Scouts, and other Scouting organizations.

Military

Forest green is a frequent color used in woodland camouflage. Beyond camo uniforms, soldiers will spray their weapons using a multitude of colors including forest green to what would otherwise be black or wooden material.

Sports

Forest green is one of the team colors of the Nottingham Hoods, an English basketball team. It is also found on the team colors of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, as related to the flag of Saskatchewan. The Minnesota Wild of the NHL has forest green as one of their team colors.

Notes and References

Web site: SVG Color Keywords, CSS3 Color Module, W3C Candidate Recommendation 14 May 2003. W3C. 2007-01-06.
Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195; color sample of Forest Green: Page 69 Plate 23 Color Sample L6
http://www.blueegg.com/what_others_are_doing/qa/2007/10/10/Nest-qa/print.go Go halfway down web page where it says “How Green is Nest”?: