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.

[2] 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).

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

The RAL color list originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.