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  2. Shades of blue - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Navy blue - Wikipedia

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    Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue . Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with naval white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th ...

  4. Blue - Wikipedia

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    Dark blue became a common colour for military uniforms and later, in the late 20th century, for business suits. ... He chose seven colours because that was the number ...

  5. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available blue ...

  6. Sapphire (color) - Wikipedia

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    Sapphire (color) The 423-carat (85 g) blue Logan Sapphire. Sapphire is a saturated shade of blue, referring to the gemstone of the same name. Sapphire gems most commonly occur in a range of blue shades, although they can come in many different colors. Other names for variations of the color sapphire are blue sapphire or sapphire blue, shown below.

  7. Electric blue (color) - Wikipedia

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    Dark electric blue is a dark cyan color that is the color called electric blue, formalized as a color in the ISCC–NBS system in 1955.. The normalized color coordinates for dark electric blue are identical to Payne's grey, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1835.

  8. Oxford Blue (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Blue (colour) Oxford Blue is the official colour of the University of Oxford. [1] The official Oxford branding guidelines set its definition as Pantone 282, equivalent to the hex code #002147. [2] With a hue code of 212, this colour is a very dark tone of azure .

  9. Azure (color) - Wikipedia

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    On the RGB and CMYK color wheel, Azure is defined as the colour halfway between blue and cyan. The colour halfway between blue and cyan on the RGB color wheel has a hex code of 0080FF. [1] ISCC–NBS descriptor. Vivid blue. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) Azure pigment.

  10. Columbia blue - Wikipedia

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    Columbia blue is a light blue color named after Columbia University. The color itself derives from the official hue of the Philolexian Society , the university's oldest student organization. Although Columbia blue is often identified with Pantone 292, the Philolexian Society first used it in the early 19th century, before the standardization of ...

  11. Cobalt blue - Wikipedia

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    Cobalt blue is a blue pigment made by sintering cobalt (II) oxide with aluminium (III) oxide (alumina) at 1200 °C. Chemically, cobalt blue pigment is cobalt (II) oxide-aluminium oxide, or cobalt (II) aluminate, CoAl 2 O 4. Cobalt blue is lighter and less intense than the (iron-cyanide based) pigment Prussian blue.