Spring bud

Variations of spring bud

Pale spring bud

This pale tone of spring bud is the color called spring green in Crayola crayons. (See spring green on the List of Crayola crayon colors).

Medium spring bud

At right is displayed the medium tone of spring bud that is called "spring bud" on the ISCC-NBS color list.

The source of this color is the following website, the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) (a site for stamp collectors to identify the colors of their stamps)--Color Sample of Spring Bud (color sample #119):

June bud

At right is the less saturated color june bud.

Bud green

The color bud green is displayed at right.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-6442 TPX—Bud Green.

May green

Displayed at right is the color may green.

This is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, a color system widely used in Europe. The RAL color list originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.

Spring bud in human culture

Horticulture

• The color spring bud is representative of and brings to mind the young buds of growing vegetation in early spring, and thus it is associated with new life.

References

References

1. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called ''spring green'' in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color ''spring green'' is displayed on page 59, Plate 18, Color Sample J7.
2. Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Color Sample of Spring Green: Page 59 Plate 18 Color Sample J7 (Note: Before the formulation of the [[X11 color names. X11 color list]] color ''spring green'' in 1987, Spring Green was thought of as a light green tinted toward the [[yellow]] that is shown in the color box above labeled ''spring bud'' and in the color sample labeled ''spring green'' in Maerz and Paul, instead of the pure [[spectrum]] web color [[Spring green (color). spring green]] halfway between [[green]] and [[cyan]] that is now regarded as the color spring green.)
3. Type the words "Bud Green" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear.
4. [http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder--Type the words "Bud Green" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear:]