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The field of the flag of the United Nations is light blue, chosen to represent peace and hope. It has given rise to the term "bluewashing". [17] The colour blue, normally of a lighter shade, is of prime significance in Judaism. The flag of Israel features two blue horizontal stripes and a blue Star of David. See also tekhelet and Zionism.
Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 November 2024. Varieties of the color brown Brown Common connotations Autumn, Thanksgiving, earth, dirt, chocolate Color coordinates Hex triplet #964B00 sRGB B (r, g, b) (150, 75, 0) HSV (h, s, v) (30°, 100%, 59%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (40, 72, 31°) Source ColorXS ISCC–NBS descriptor Strong brown B ...
The ancient Greeks classified colors by whether they were light or dark, rather than by their hue. The Greek word for dark blue, kyaneos, could also mean dark green, violet, black or brown. The ancient Greek word for a light blue, glaukos, also could mean light green, grey, or yellow. [17] The Greeks imported indigo dye from India, calling it ...
Italian, Russian and Hebrew have twelve basic color terms, each distinguishing blue and light blue. A Russian will make the same red/pink and orange/brown distinctions, but will also make a further distinction between синий (sinii) and голубой (goluboi), which English speakers would call
The five major colors of European heraldry (black, red, green, blue, and purple) are sorted next. Miscellaneous colors ( murrey , tan , grey, and pink) are sorted last. Similar colors are grouped together to make navigation of this list practical.
Livid (blue-gray) is the opposite concept from brown. Brown colors are mainly dark orange and dark red colors—warm colors on the warm color side of the color wheel, while blue-gray (livid) colors are mainly dark blue and dark azure colors—colors on the opposite side of the color wheel—cool colors on the cool color side of the color wheel.
Brown is a dark orange color, made by combining red, yellow and black. [16] It can be thought of as dark orange, but it can also be made in other ways. In the RGB color model, which uses red, green and blue light in various combinations to make all the colors on computer and television screens, it is made by mixing red and green light.