Forest 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).

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.

Shades

Forest green (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

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

The color tropical rainforest was formulated by Crayola in 1993.

Petrified forest

Displayed at right is the color petrified forest, a metallic shade of forest green.

The color petrified forest was formulated by Crayola in 2019. It was one of eight new Metallic FX colors that year.

Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

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.

School colors

Forest green is one of the school colors of University of the Philippines, 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.

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