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Ozeangrün
Ocean green

EVERY OCEAN HAS ITS OWN UNIQUE COLOUR SCHEME OF DISTINCTIVE TONES.

In nature, the ripening process begins with green

Green is the colour of the centre. As a synesthetic phenomenon, we also experience it via various organs of sense. In the middle, sandwiched between warm red and cool blue, lies comfortable green. Green tastes salady and sour, while red is sweet and fruity. Blue often has a neutral flavour which is why it is seldom found in the kitchen.

Green is the colour of growth and success. The ripening process in nature generally occurs via a colour palette that extends from pale green through mid-green to yellow and orange, then red to blue and finally black-brown. Etymologically, the word green comes from the Middle English and Old English word “grene” which, like the German word “grün”, has the same root as the words grass and grow.

Green has passed into everyday usage in many ways. When someone is said to be “green behind the ears” or just “green”, it is implied in both a real and ironic sense that they are just starting out in life.

Every idiom relating to “freshness” and “nature” is subject to the particular scrutiny of those who watch over the colour green. That goes for those with a “green conscience”, “green thumb” or, in German, the “Grüne Hochzeitler” (those celebrating their wedding day) just as much as “greenhorns” and those espousing an ideological political stance.

Passion for colour, shape, materials and aesthetic designs determine my daily creative actions as a designer. The opportunity to visualise thoughts through design and being able to create atmospheres is something which has always fascinated me

Mara Gerlach, B.A. Colour technology / Room design / Surface technology, BUW Wuppertal

The green message as signal and fanfare

Green is not only the colour of hope. Its rise in significance began in the 60s and 70s of the 20th century when it grew and flourished during the youth revolution. It spawned a global desire for a healthier lifestyle that was closely entwined with a growing awareness of the long term need to improve global environmental conditions. A process that is even more important today.

Green, the colour of nature, has since become an iconographic symbol of a fundamentally altruistic position. Growing green plants, preferably useful plants, in front gardens or larger green spaces, on balconies or patios now ranks among the fundamental virtues of an open-minded and intact neighbourhood.

GREEN AND THE WORLD OF MEDICINE

Shades of green possess chameleon-like properties that become visible in their interaction with other colours. As soon as Ocean green 180 50 50 is combined with pure black, we perceive it as poisonous. We see the same green in combination with white as healthy.
Many branches of industry are increasingly turning knowledge about colours and their meanings to their advantage while others are still novices of the art. An example is the pharma industry, which, surprisingly, still ignores the ample opportunities to use colour to improve the associative and synesthetic qualities of pharmaceutical packaging and its contents.

As a result, many people, and particularly the older generation, complain that the growing array of packages featuring the same colours and shapes is leading to confusion and errors in the administration of medications. Luckily, there are now plenty of competent colour experts showing the pharma industry how it should be done, thereby contributing to improving patients’ wellbeing.

Green – Possessor of the widest colour space

The colour Ocean green RAL 180 50 50 fulfils a desire for distant lands, travel and white sandy beaches, and with them, the desire for solitude and tranquillity. Positioned as it is at the bluer end of the spectrum, the shade also has a reserved frigidity about it and a sense of patience and wisdom – following the eternal cycle of the sea and its currents.
As a symbol of experience, green is not a secondary colour made from yellow and blue. As inferred from its meaning in the colour lexicon, it appears more as a primary colour, similar to yellow, blue and red. The entire colour space in the German language is probably the most significant in terms of the sheer variaty of its names.

At the same time, on the threshold between green and yellow and between green and blue, an astonishingly large number of men demonstrate significant visual impairment. A sizeable 8.4 percent of them are colour blind. They have red-green colour blindness or an impaired ability to distinguish either red or green. By contrast, colour blindness has a prevalence of only 0.4 percent in adult women. Astonishingly, this distribution pattern is the same worldwide, across all ethnicities. It seems as if, from an evolutionary biology standpoint, the need to differentiate between colours was much stronger for women than for men.

Green expertise: Specific to landscape and gender

Differences between the sexes can be seen even more clearly in language than in the ability to see colour. Men get by with less than half of the usual vocabulary employed by women to describe a colour. Empirical studies have repeatedly shown that the quality of the vocabulary used by men across the entire green colour range is often limited – for example in relation to descriptions like “May green”, “ocean green”, “khaki”, or “olive green”. Around a third of the men in the study provided no differentiating descriptor. Words like turquoise were largely foreign to them. They either described the colour as “blue” or “like blue”, or they said it was “green” or “a funny green”. Here, too, the female vocabulary is significantly more comprehensive and better differentiated.

Similar variances can be observed amongst different ethnicities. People who live predominantly in desert landscapes have a significantly less well-developed green vocabulary than some indigenous tribes in Brazil that have as many as 200 different words to describe green in everyday use. This shows clearly the influence of environmental factors on language use and colour perception.

Colour is communication – colour is an individual perception of the senses, which is produced by the light entering the human eye. As the perception of colour depends among other things on the property of the eye as well as on the sensitivity of the receptors, it is subjective, in other words different for every person. Nevertheless, there are psychological, symbolic and associative colour effects, which are the same for most people.

Cordula Bahm, Colour studio "RAUM FÜR FARBE" – Interior architecture & Colour design , Karlsruhe

GREEN BATHROOMS – A PHENOMENON OF THE TIMES?

The question is, why did they happen and when? Brightly coloured shades like Aumor (ruby red), Oasis (deep green), Curry-Orange and Sorrento (ultramarine blue) were developed and sold with matching tiles and accessories, including the much-loved bathroom carpet, with phenomenal success. The market share of brightly coloured bathroom products (including bathroom tiles and every kind of accessory imaginable) exceeded sixty percent. House builders in the 70s and 80s advertised their new properties with the tagline “colourful sanitary ware”. A glance at the trends of yesteryear describes, so to speak, a watershed moment for the green future – “new trends” are often riffs on “old” trends, just with a prettier and more verbose packaging.

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OCEAN GREEN

SYMBOLIC IMPRESSIONS OF OCEAN GREEN
SYMBOLIC LEVEL
clean
cold
pleasure
ASSOCIATIVE LEVEL
flat
wavy
fresh
PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVEL
endless
profound
animated
METAPHORICAL LEVEL
atavistic
stormy
volatile
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE
EAR
HEARING SYMBOLS
purring
roaring
rushing
SENSE OF TOUCH
TOUCH SYMBOLS
lapping
moved
cold
SKIN SENSE
TEMPERATURE SYMBOLS
original
supple
fishy
MUSCLE SENSE
GRAVITAS CHARACTERISTICS
slight
weightless
rocking
SMELL / TASTE
Flavour
salty
pure
sour

RAL 180 – RAL COLOUR DNA

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Pechgrün
Pitch green
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Lackgrün
Lacquer green
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Zaungrün
Fence green
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Myrtengrün
Myrtle green
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Amazonasgrün
Amazon green
RAL 180 30 10
Sattgrautürkis
Rich grey turquoise
RAL 180 30 15
Tafelgrün
Blackboard green
RAL 180 30 20
Schwedengrün
Swedish green
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Fjordgrün
Fjord green
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Stadtgrün
Urban green
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Dschungelgrün
Jungle green
RAL 180 40 05
Erdgrün
Earth green
RAL 180 40 10
Kiefergrün
Pine green
RAL 180 40 15
Forstgrün
Forest greenery
RAL 180 40 20
Meergrün
Sea green
RAL 180 40 25
Eukalyptusgrün
Eucalyptus green
RAL 180 40 30
Efeufrischgrün
Fresh ivy green
RAL 180 40 35
Crysokollmittelgrün
Chrysocolla medium green
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Plakatgrün
Poster green
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Petroldunkelgrün
Teal dark green
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Dämmergrün
Dusk green
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Erquickungsgrün
Refreshing green
RAL 180 50 15
Stumpftürkis
Dull turquoise
RAL 180 50 20
Azuritwassergrün
Azurite water green
RAL 180 50 25
Kupfermineralgrün
Copper mineral green
RAL 180 50 30
Glasgrün
Glass green
RAL 180 50 35
Sommertürkis
Summer turquoise
RAL 180 50 40
Weihnachtsgrün
Christmas green
RAL 180 50 45
Industrietürkis
Industrial turquoise
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Ozeangrün
Ocean green
RAL 180 60 05
Marmorgrüngrau
Marble green-grey
RAL 180 60 10
Kachelgrün
Tile green
RAL 180 60 15
Kupferdachgrün
Copper roof green
RAL 180 60 20
Salbeigrün
Sage green
RAL 180 60 25
Petrolgrün
Petrol green
RAL 180 60 30
Dioptasgrün
Dioptase green
RAL 180 60 35
Stempelkissengrün
Stamp pad green
RAL 180 60 40
Leuchttürkis
Light turquoise
RAL 180 60 45
Karibikgrün
Caribbean green
RAL 180 60 50
Brillanttürkis
Brilliant turquoise
RAL 180 70 05
Feldspatsilber
Feldspar silver
RAL 180 70 10
Grazilgrün
Delicate green
RAL 180 70 15
Silikatgrün
Silicate green
RAL 180 70 20
Mintbonbongrün
Mint bonbon green
RAL 180 70 25
Gletschergrün
Glacial green
RAL 180 70 30
Badtürkis
Bath turquoise
RAL 180 70 35
Bergseeazur
Mountain lake azure
RAL 180 70 40
Reincyan
Pure cyan
RAL 180 80 05
Aragonitweiß
Aragonite white
RAL 180 80 10
Lichtpetrol
Light teal
RAL 180 80 15
Whirlpoolgrün
Whirlpool green
RAL 180 80 20
Opaltürkis
Opal turquoise
RAL 180 80 25
Caprihellgrün
Light Capri green
RAL 180 80 30
Zarttürkis
Tender turquoise
RAL 180 85 05
Meerdunstgrau
Sea haze grey
RAL 180 85 10
Feuerlandmeergrün
Tierra del Fuego sea green
RAL 180 85 15
Bergseehelltürkis
Pale mountain lake turquoise
RAL 180 85 20
Korallgrün
Coral green
RAL 180 90 05
Transparentgrün
Transparent green
RAL 180 90 10
Eiswassergrün
Ice water green
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Arktisweiß
Arctic white