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Goblet from Mesopotamia, 1500–1300 BC glazed with Egyptian blue.This was the first synthetic blue, first made in about 2500 BC. The color blue has been important in culture, politics, art and fashion since ancient times.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Variety of the color blue For other uses, see Shades of Blue (disambiguation). "Shade of Blue" redirects here. For the song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, see Shade of Blue (song). For the R&B/funk band, see Shade of Blue (band). Blue Wavelength 440–490 nm Common connotations ...
Colour names often developed individually in natural languages, typically beginning with black and white (or dark and light), and then adding red, and only much later – usually as the last main category of colour accepted in a language – adding the colour blue, probably when blue pigments could be manufactured reliably in the culture using ...
Bleu de France (colour) Blue in culture; Blue-gray; Blue-green; Byzantine blue; C. Cambridge Blue (colour) Capri (color) Carolina blue; Cerulean; Cobalt blue; Cobalt ...
Thailand's accepted racing colours of mid blue with a lower yellow band and/or yellow wheels, are said to have been derived from the evening dress worn by a young woman met in London in the early thirties by Prince Bira of Siam, who lived in Europe and was a well-known racer of the time. Bira adopted the scheme for his cars from 1934 until he ...
The color cerulean (American English) or caerulean (British English, Commonwealth English), is a variety of the hue of blue that may range from a light azure blue to a more intense sky blue, and may be mixed as well with the hue of green. The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590. [1]
Yves Klein Blue, an Australian rock band, take their name from the color and the artist who created it. In 1982 Danish rock band Kliché released an instrumental named "International Klein Blue". [13] International Klein Blue is the color used by Blue Man Group. [14]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 January 2025. Colors are an important part of visual arts, fashion, interior design, and many other fields and disciplines. The following is a list of colors. A number of the color swatches below are taken from domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4. RGB values are given for each swatch ...