Displayed at left is the web color honeydew, a pastel tint of spring green. The color honeydew is a representation of the color of the interior flesh of a honeydew melon. The first recorded use of spring green as a color name in English was in 1766.

Spring green is a color included on the color wheel that is precisely halfway between cyan and green. When plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram it corresponds to a visual stimulus of 505 nanometers on the visible spectrum. Spring green is a pure chroma on the color wheel. In HSV color space, the expression of which is known as the RGB color wheel, spring green has a hue of 150º. Spring green is one of the tertiary colors on the RGB color wheel.