| Spring Bud | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #A7FC00 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (167, 252, 0) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (20, 0, 80, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (88°, 90%, 63%) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul |
| B: Normalized to (byte) H: Normalized to (hundred) |
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Displayed at right is the color spring bud.
This color is also called soft spring green, spring green (traditional), or spring green (M&P)(M&P=Maerz and Paul). As noted above, this was the color that was traditionally called "spring green" before the web color spring green was formulated in 1987.
The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English (meaning the color that is now called spring bud) was in 1766.
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