Spring bud is the color that used to be called ''spring green'' before the X11 web color

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was formulated in 1987 when the

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were first promulgated. This color is now called ''spring bud'' to avoid confusion with the web color. The color is also called soft spring green, spring green (traditional), or spring green (M&P). 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.

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

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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

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s 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.Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder--Type the words "Bud Green" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear:
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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.