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The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that’s between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet.
The web color light blue is part of the X11 color system, with a hue code of 194. This color is closer to cyan than to blue. Variations of this color are known as sky blue, baby blue, or angel blue. The first recorded use of "light blue" as a color term in English is in the year 1915.
This was the first synthetic blue, first made in about 2500 BC. The colour blue has been important in culture, politics, art and fashion since ancient times. Blue was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament.
Light blue is a color or range of colors, typically a lightened shade with a hue between cyan and blue. The first use of "light blue" as a color term in English is in the year 1915. [2]
Baby blue Color coordinates; Hex triplet #89CFF0: sRGB B (r, g, b) (137, 207, 240) HSV (h, s, v) (199°, 43%, 94%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (80, 48, 227°) Source: Maerz and Paul: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Very light greenish blue: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Category:Shades of blue. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Types of blue. This category is for all varieties, not only shades in the technical sense. See also the categories Shades of azure and Shades of cyan.
Sky blue refers to a collection of shades comparable to that of a clear daytime sky. Typically it is a shade of cyan or light teal , though some iterations are closer to light blue . The term (as "sky blew") is attested from 1681. [1]
Blue pigments are natural or synthetic materials, usually made from minerals and insoluble with water, used to make the blue colors in painting and other arts. The raw material of the earliest blue pigment was lapis lazuli from mines in Afghanistan, that was refined into the pigment ultramarine .
Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon. Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sunlight or full-spectrum light , but can appear black under certain more limited spectra sometimes found in artificial lighting (especially early 20th-century ...
Light to dark blue. YInMn Blue (/jɪnmɪn/; for the chemical symbols Y for yttrium, In for indium, and Mn for manganese ), also known as Oregon Blue or Mas Blue, is an inorganic blue pigment that was discovered by Mas Subramanian and his (then) graduate student, Andrew Smith, at Oregon State University in 2009.
