About Chartreuse Liqueur Green
Green Chartreuse is the only liqueur to have named a color. Distilled by Carthusian monks from a secret recipe of 130 herbs codified in 1764, it glows an unmistakable acid yellow-green when backlit in its glass.
This design system stages that glow against the near-black gloom of the Grande Chartreuse cellar: aged stone and oak, hairline engraved botanicals, apothecary-label panels, and classical Garamond serifs. The luminous green dominates; everything else recedes into darkness.
- Origin
- France — Grande Chartreuse monastery, Voiron caves, Isère / Alps
- Era
- pre-1900 — recipe codified 1764; color name 'chartreuse' first recorded 1892
- Key figures
- The Carthusian (Chartreux) monastic order · The secret 130-herb recipe holders
- Movements
- Monastic herbalism / apothecary tradition · 18th–19th-century botanical engraving
Chartreuse Liqueur Green design spec
Colors
Typography
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