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  2. Chartreuse (color) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, chartreuse yellow is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green, named after the drink yellow chartreuse. [ 3 ] During the 2000s, yellow-green, as well as other shades of bright green like lime green , became very popular when various tech companies used it in office decor and other products, and with the popularity and ...

  3. Shades of chartreuse - Wikipedia

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    Green-yellow is a mixture of the colors green and yellow. It is a web color. It is a light tint of chartreuse. "Green-yellow" is an official Crayola crayon color which was formulated in 1958. Green-yellow is near the center of the visible spectrum, and is very eye-catching. For this reason, many emergency vehicles and uniforms exhibit green-yellow.

  4. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    The same color of green symbolizes envy in Belgium and the US, but envy is symbolized by yellow in Germany and Russia, and purple in Mexico. Even the colors that denote powerful emotions vary. Love is symbolized by green in Japan, red and purple in China, Korea, Japan, and the US. Unluckiness is symbolized by red in Chad, Nigeria, and Germany.

  5. On Vision and Colours - Wikipedia

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    Why are red, green, orange, blue, yellow, and violet given names and considered to be the most important? Because they represent the retina's activity in the simplest fractions or ratios. The same is true of the seven keynotes in the musical diatonic scale: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti. Color is the qualitatively divided activity of the retina.

  6. Liturgical colours - Wikipedia

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    Vestments in different liturgical colours. Liturgical colours are specific colours used for vestments and hangings within the context of Christian liturgy.The symbolism of violet, blue, white, green, red, gold, black, rose, and other colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion.

  7. List of colors (alphabetical) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. For other color lists, see Lists of colors. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "List of colors" alphabetical ...

  8. Religious symbol - Wikipedia

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    The Druze strictly avoid iconography, but use five colors ("Five Limits") on their Druze star and Druze flag as a religious symbol: [7] [8] [9] green, red, yellow, blue, and white. Each color pertains to a metaphysical power called ḥadd, literally "a limit", as in the distinctions that separate humans from animals, or the powers that make ...

  9. Pan-African colours - Wikipedia

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    Pan-African colours is a term that may refer to two different sets of colours: . Green, yellow and red, the colours of the flag of Ethiopia, have come to represent the pan-Africanist ideology due to the country's history of having avoided being taken over by a colonial power.