This very intense dark green color became popular in the late nineteenth century during the pre-Raphaelite obsession with knights, fairies, sorceresses, and, of course, dragons. These days we know that dragons can be of any color (like that of the dragon voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch in The Hobbit), but back then, information about these winged horrors from the sky was mostly obtained from paintings. And in many old paintings depicting the Battle of Saint George, dragons are mostly green, as befits all kinds of lizards. Thus, a new and fashionable shade of green received this name.

Today, in the hexadecimal code used by designers, it is denoted by the value #1E571E.