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Yale Blue is the dark azure color used in association with Yale University. The hue of Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of Indiana State University, [68] the University of Mississippi, [69] and Southern Methodist University. [70] The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is very close to Yale Blue. [71]
Cerulean ( / səˈruːliən / ), also spelled caerulean, 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 colour name in English was in 1590. [ 1] The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, "dark blue ...
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color displayed adjacent, titled medium electric blue, is the electric bluewhich "had an immense vogue in the latter 19th century".[3] Its source is a textile sample from the 1890s. [5][6] Today, this tone remains typical of "electric blue" fabricsin the mass market. Dark electric blue.
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.
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 ...
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 .
Cornflower blue is a shade of medium-to-light blue containing relatively little green. This hue was one of the favorites of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. [ 1] Cornflower blue sapphire. The most valuable blue sapphires are called cornflower blue, having a medium-dark violet-blue hue. [ 2]
On the RGB color wheel, "azure" ( hexadecimal #0080FF) is defined as the color at 210 degrees, i.e., the hue halfway between blue and cyan. In the RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a television or computer screen, azure is created by adding a 50% of green light to a 100% of blue light.