Forest green
| Forest green | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #228B22 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (34, 139, 34) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (120°, 76%, 55%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (51, 70, 128°) |
| Source | X11 |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellowish green |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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).
The first recorded use of forest green as a color name in English was in 1810.
Forest green is a representation of the average color of the leaves of the trees of a temperate zone deciduous forest.