London. Around the corner from Brunswick Square (not far from Charles Dickens’ home on Doughty Street) and opposite an ugly development called the Brunswick Centre, I found a row of dark green doors and a childhood memory.
During a brief and unsuccessful flirtation with Airfix kits, I fell in love with the rich range of exotically named Humbrol enamels. Brunswick Green was one of my favourites, along with Prussian Blue.
Back then, it never occurred to me to ask where (or what) Brunswick was. Good old Wikipedia.
Brunswick green is a common name for green pigments made from copper compounds, although the name has also been used for other formulations that produce a similar hue, such as mixtures of chrome yellow and Prussian blue. The pigment is named after Braunschweig, Germany (also known as Brunswick in English) where it was first manufactured. It is a deep, dark green, which may vary from intense to very dark, almost black.[42]
The first recorded use of Brunswick green as a color name in English was in 1764.[43] Another name for this color is English green. The first use of English green as a synonym for Brunswick green was in 1923.[44]
Deep Brunswick green is commonly recognized as part of the British racing green spectrum, the national auto racing color of the United Kingdom.
| Brunswick green | |
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 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #1B4D3E |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (27, 77, 62) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (65, 0, 20, 70) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (162°, 65%, 30%) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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