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Delft blue is a dark blue color. The name is derived from the Dutch pottery Delftware, also known simply as "Delft Blue".
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 ...
Darker shades of blue include ultramarine, cobalt blue, navy blue, and Prussian blue; while lighter tints include sky blue, azure, and Egyptian blue (for a more complete list see the List of colours).
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 century, it was initially called marine blue ...
Fine-ground azurite produces a lighter, washed-out color. Traditionally, the pigment was considered unstable in oil paints, and was sometimes isolated from other colors and not mixed. The use of the term spread through the practice of heraldry, where "azure" represents a blue color in the system of tinctures.
Blue Sapphire Color coordinates; Hex triplet #126180: sRGB B (r, g, b) (18, 97, 128) HSV (h, s, v) (197°, 86%, 50%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (38, 40, 232°) Source: Pantone TPX: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Dark greenish blue: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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 .
Dark midnight blue (Crayola) At right is displayed the dark shade of midnight blue that is called midnight blue in Crayola crayons. Midnight blue became an official crayola color in 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1903, it was called Prussian blue .
Dark sky blue Colour coordinates; Hex triplet #8CBED6: sRGB B (r, g, b) (140, 190, 214) HSV (h, s, v) (199°, 35%, 84%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (74, 36, 225°) Source: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Light greenish blue: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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 ...