217 Color names for "Shades Of Blue"

Blue is one of the colors of the rainbow that people can see. It is one of the primary colors (colors that can be mixed with other colors) of light, along with red and green. Blue is the color of the Earth's sky and sea. Earth looks blue when seen from outer space by astronauts. Blue is usually associated with masculinity, harmony, conservatism, liberalism, the cold, sadness, calmness and royalty. The color blue is sometimes associated with sadness, which may be where the name of the music style The Blues comes from. Blue is a color of the Jewish religion. In Western cultures since the 1940s, blue is associated with men/boys.

Duke blue is a dark blue color used in association with Duke University.

Cerulean, 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. The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus, "dark blue, blue, or blue-green", which in turn probably derives from caerulum, diminutive of caelum, "heaven, sky".

Dark blue-gray is a deep, muted shade of gray that has hints of blue.

Yale Blue is the dark azure color used in association with Yale University.

The color Persian blue is named from the blue color of some Persian pottery and the color of tiles used in and on mosques and palaces in Iran and in other places in the Middle East. Persian blue is a representation of the color of the mineral lapis lazuli which comes from Persia and Afghanistan. The color azure is also named after the mineral lapis lazuli. The first recorded use of Persian blue as a color name in English was in 1669. It comes in three major tones: 1. Persian blue proper: a bright medium blue; 2. medium Persian blue (a medium slightly grayish blue that is slightly indigoish); 3. and a kind of dark blue which is referred to as Persian indigo, dark Persian blue, or regimental, that is much closer to the web color indigo.

Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (CaCuSi4O10 or CaOCuO(SiO2)4 (calcium copper tetrasilicate)) or cuprorivaite, is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years. It is considered to be the first synthetic pigment. It was known to the Romans by the name caeruleum. After the Roman era, Egyptian blue fell from use and, thereafter, the manner of its creation was forgotten.In modern times, scientists have been able to analyze its chemistry and reconstruct how to make it. The ancient Egyptian word wꜣḏ signifies blue, blue-green, and green. The first recorded use of "Egyptian blue" as a color name in English was in 1809.

Neon blue is a vivid purplish blue.

Livid is a medium bluish-gray color. This color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622. There is a range of colors called livid colors that combine the colors blue and gray.

The light greenish-blue version of Savoy blue was adopted by the Italy national football team during the 2009 Confederations Cup.

Steel blue is a shade of blue color that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has been subjected to bluing for protection from rust. It is one of the less vibrant shades of blue, and is usually identified as a blue-grey color. The first recorded use of steel blue as a color name in English was in 1817. In 1987, Steel blue was included as one of the X11 colors, later also known as the X11 web colors after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #15-3930 TPX—Vista Blue.

The first recorded use of celestial blue as a color name in English was in 1535. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

UCLA Blue is the dark azure color used in association with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It is described as a deep sky blue and is accompanied by a sun gold, UCLA Gold. Both are colloquially referred to as "blue and gold." UCLA Blue was approved by the Chancellor of UCLA in March 2004 for use by the school's academic and administrative units. While this was distinct from True Blue adopted by UCLA Athletics in the early 2000s, the athletic department aligned to use UCLA Blue in 2021 when Nike and the Jordan Brand took over apparel rights for the Bruin varsity sports teams. The hexadecimal value of the color is 2774AE. UCLA Blue is a Pantone color.

Dark blue is a shade of the standard (h = 240°) blue.

Blue-green is the color that is between green and blue. It belongs to the cyan family of colors.

The source of this colour is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" colour list, colour #18-3937 TPX—Blue Yonder.

Displayed in the color box is the colour vivid sky blue. Sky blue refers to a collection of shades comparable to that of a clear daytime sky. The term (as "sky blew") is attested from 1681.

The color resembles the shade of blue seen on the flag of the United Nations.

This color was apparently formulated as an impression of the color that commissioned officers in a fictional space navy would wear.

Dark electric blue is a dark cyan color that is the color called electric blue, formalized as a color in the ISCC–NBS system in 1955. The normalized color coordinates for dark electric blue are identical to Payne's grey, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1835.

The actual blue that the Dodgers currently wear is RGB-hex #005A9C. Regarding the web color's RGB values, Paul Raveling notes that "The color tuning was done on HP monitors and the colors turned out very good then. The catch is that since then, monitors seemed to have standardized on different gamma corrections." The current standard RGB color space was defined in 1996, seven years after “dodgerblue.”

Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. Pantone 284 is one of "Secondary Blues" used by the university.

Bondi blue is a color belonging to the cyan family of blues. It is very similar to the Crayola crayon color "blue-green". Apple, Inc. christened the color of the back of the original iMac computer "Bondi Blue" when it was introduced in 1998. It is said to be named for the color of the water at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia.

The Crayola color named "navy blue" is not as dark a shade as the standard navy blue. This tone of navy blue was formulated as a Crayola color in 1958.

Imperial blue is recorded as an alternative name for the traditional royal blue color. The name is also used for a distinct, medium blue color by Pantone.

Little Boy Blue is a deep tone of Baby Blue color. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-4132 TPX—Little Boy Blue.

Cool gray is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. Another name for this color is gray-blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray.

Green-blue was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Carolina blue (occasionally referred to as Tar Heel blue) is the shade of blue used as one of the official school colors of the University of North Carolina. The name is derived from the popular usage of "Carolina" to refer to the university. For clarity in branding and marketing, UNC Creative has defined the color as Pantone 542 and declared the CMYK (60, 19, 1, 4). This CMYK results in a Hex code of #62C6F2. However, the university has chosen the hex value of #4B9CD3 as their web safe Carolina Blue due to contrast issues and Section 508 web requirements. None of the colors match the selected Pantone 542 which would be a hex value of #6699C2. The North Carolina Tar Heels athletics department has their own formulation for Carolina blue. Carolina athletics blue has the same CMYK color representation as the university's version of Carolina blue, but the RGB representation for Carolina athletics blue is (123, 175, 212). This results in a Hex code of #7BAFD4, the official matching hex code for Pantone 542 C.

Midnight blue became an official crayola color in 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1903, it was called Prussian blue.

The first recorded use of sky blue as a colour name in English was in 1728 in the Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers.

Brandeis blue is the tone of azure used in association with Brandeis University. The university administration defines Brandeis blue as corresponding to the Pantone color of 294 or the process color of 100c 86m 14y w24k.

Darker shade of Columbia blue, a color named after Columbia University. In a 2009 publication, the university officially lists Columbia blue as Pantone 290, though Pantone 292, may still be called Columbia blue when used on a light background.

Slate blue is a web color with its first recorded use as a color name in English dating back to 1796.

Ruddy blue represents the coloring of the beak of the ruddy duck.

Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue. It is said to have been created by clothiers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of whom won a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III.

International Klein Blue (IKB) is a deep blue hue first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein. IKB's visual impact comes from its heavy reliance on ultramarine, as well as Klein's often thick and textured application of paint to canvas.

Copper phthalocyanine (CuPc), also called phthalocyanine blue, phthalo blue and many other names, is a bright, crystalline, synthetic blue pigment from the group of phthalocyanine dyes.Its brilliant blue is frequently used in paints and dyes. It is highly valued for its superior properties such as light fastness, tinting strength, covering power and resistance to the effects of alkalis and acids. It has the appearance of a blue powder, insoluble in most solvents including water.

Shadow blue is a color formulated by Crayola in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors. Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

The color defined as blue in the CMYK color system used in printing, also known as pigment blue, is the tone of blue that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) cyan and process (printer's) magenta in equal proportions. The purpose of the CMYK color system is to provide the maximum possible gamut of color reproducible in printing by the use of only three primaries. The color indicated is only approximate as the colors of printing inks may vary.

This Crayola colour was formulated in 2003. It is intended to represent the colour of the sky on a cloudy, stormy day.

Dark Slate Blue is a dark bluish-purple shade that combines the depth of slate with a touch of blue. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

The color Air Superiority Blue, also known as PRU Blue, is shown. Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) Blue was devised by Sidney Cotton for the RAF during WW II as a low visibility camouflage colour for its high-flying Supermarine Spitfire and de Havilland Mosquito reconnaissance aircraft. As "air superiority blue" it was then adopted by the US Army Air Forces and was added as one of the colours when the Federal Standard 595 colour list was set up in 1956. This colour is used as camouflage by being painted on the bottom sides of reconnaissance aircraft to make them less visible from the ground.

Cobalt blue is a blue pigment made by sintering cobalt(II) oxide with aluminum(III) oxide (alumina) at 1200 °C. Cobalt blue is lighter and less intense than the (iron-cyanide based) pigment Prussian blue. It is extremely stable and historically has been used as a coloring agent in ceramics (especially Chinese porcelain), jewelry, and paint. Transparent glasses are tinted with the silica-based cobalt pigment smalt.

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 century, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue. An early use of navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840 though the Oxford English Dictionary has a citation from 1813.

The X11 web color Midnight Blue is shown in color box. There are two major shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color. This color was originally called midnight. The first recorded use of midnight as a color name in English was in 1915.

Duke blue is a dark blue color associated with Duke University. A lighter shade called Duke Royal Blue is used in the Iron Duke logo and the branding for Duke Athletics.

Oxford Blue is the official colour of the University of Oxford. The official Oxford branding guidelines set its definition as Pantone 282, equivalent to the hex code #002147. With a hue code of 212, this colour is a very dark tone of azure.

"Cerulean blue" is the name of a pigment. The pigment was discovered in the late eighteenth century and designated as cerulean blue in the nineteenth century. The primary chemical constituent of the pigment is cobalt stannate . The precise hue of the pigment is dependent on a variable silicate component.