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Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. [2] It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that’s between approximately ...
The color defined as blue in the RGB color model, X11 blue, is the brightest possible blue that can be reproduced on a computer screen, and is the color named blue in X11. It is one of the three primary colors used in the RGB color space , along with red and green .
Blue in culture. 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. Blue was used in ancient Egypt for jewelry and ornament. [1]
Cambridge Blue (colour) Capri (color) Carolina blue. Cerulean. Cobalt blue. Cobalt glass. Color of water. Columbia blue. Copper phthalocyanine.
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 ...
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.
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] In Russian and some other languages, there is no single word for blue, but rather different words for light blue ( голубой, goluboy) and dark blue ...
Teal blue is a medium tone of teal with more blue. The first recorded use of teal blue as a color name in English was in 1927.: p. 101, plate 39, color sample L6 The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.