| Persian green | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #00A693 |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (135°, 75%, 60%) |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 166, 147) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant bluish green |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | |
Persian green is a color used in pottery and Persian carpets in Iran.
Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian red and Persian blue.
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13th century Gorgan ceramic
The color Persian green is named from the green color of some Persian pottery and is a representation of the color of the mineral malachite. It is a popular color in Iran because the color green symbolizes gardens, nature, heaven, and sanctity. The first recorded use of Persian green as a color name in English was in 1891, due to Persian traditional architecture.[1][2]
References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201; color sample of Persian green: Page 85 Plate 31 Color Sample H7
- ^ The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps, now on the Internet—see sample of the color Persian green (color sample #159) displayed on indicated web page: [1] Archived 2017-07-30 at the Wayback Machine.