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:''For the liqueur 'chartreuse', see chartreuse (liqueur).''
'Chartreuse' is a color that was named because of its resemblance to the green color of one of the French liqueurs called ''green chartreuse''. [1]
The web color 'chartreuse' is the color precisely halfway between green and yellow, so it is 50% green and 50% yellow.
A Crayola crayon named Chartreuse was created in 1972, but it was the incorrect color, a red-orange shade. It was renamed ''Atomic Tangerine'' in 1990.
The complementary (opposite) color of chartreuse is violet. Chartreuse is the most visible color to the human eye.^[1]

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Chartreuse

Chartreuse versus chartreuse yellow

Chartreuse in human culture

References

See also

Chartreuse

At right is displayed the color 'chartreuse'. This color is also called 'chartreuse green'.
The term ''chartreuse'' was first used to refer to this color (the color halfway between green and yellow) in the mid-1990s. Before that, this color was called ''yellow-green''.
The first recorded use of ''chartreuse'' as a color name in English (in the original sense of ''chartreuse'', meaning the color that is now called chartreuse yellow) was in 1892.^[2]

Chartreuse versus chartreuse yellow

Before the web color chartreuse was invented in the 1990s, the color name ''chartreuse'' always referred to a much more yellowish green color that is today called chartreuse yellow to distinguish it from the color displayed in this article.
Since many people (especially those in the baby boom generation and older, but also some younger people not involved with computers) still think of the term ''chartreuse'' as referring to what is nowadays called ''chartreuse yellow'', it may be necessary to carefully distinguish between the two colors by referring to the color described in this article as ''chartreuse green'' when speaking to or writing for certain audiences (especially those not involved in web site design or the computer industry) to avoid any confusion.

Chartreuse in human culture

'Advertising'

★ Chartreuse may be used in advertising for greengrocers or farmers markets.
'Alcoholic beverages'

★ Chartreuse represents green chartreuse liqueur. [2]

★ ''Silver Patron'' tequila, made from blue agave, comes in chartreuse colored packages.
'Bottled water'

★ ''Alhambra water'' (a brand delivered mainly in Northern California since 1902) and the other brands of bottled water delivered by the ''Sparkletts Water Company'' are delivered in chartreuse colored trucks. [3]
'Geography'

★ The Chartreuse Mountains are located north of Grenoble, France.
'Literature'

★ ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' (English: ''The Charterhouse of Parma'') is a famous novel by 19th century French writer Stendhal.

★ ''The Girl from the Chartreuse'' is a book by Pierre Péju and also the title of the adapted film by Jean-Pierre Denis.
'Packaging'

★ Chartreuse is often used on the plastic bags that hold pre-packaged mixed salad greens in supermarkets.
'Politics'

★ Chartreuse (as well as green) may be used to represent the Green movement.
'Religion'

★ The Grande Chartreuse is a Catholic monastery in the Chartreuse mountains. The mother house of the Carthusian monks, the Grand Chartreuse is also the origin of Chartreuse liqueur after which both yellow and green chartreuse colors are named.
'Television'

★ Favourite Color of That's So Raven character Chelsea Daniels.

★ In the television show, The Angry Beavers, Norbert's girlfriend Treeflower fronts for a band called ''The Friendly Chartreuse Bubble Gum Machine.''

★ In an episode of Goof Troop, Pete attempts to use Goofy's cat for his own purposes, and so tells Goofy that the cat is allergic to the paint on his house, in fact, he's allergic to every color but chartreuse, and "who wants a chartreuse house?" Goofy immediately begins to paint his house the color.

References

1. Nine Brain Quirks You Didn't Realize You Had
2. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192

See also

★ Chartreuse Yellow

★ Harlequin

★ Lime

★ List of colors