Sky blue | |
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Common connotations | |
boys, daylight, water, air, paleness | |
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Hex triplet | #87CEEB |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (135, 206, 235) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (197°, 43%, 92%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (79, 46, 223°) |
Source | X11 color names |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Very light greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Sky blue is a shade of light xanh rớt comparable lớn that of a clear daytime sky.[1] The term (as "sky blew") is attested from 1681.[1] A 1585 translation of Nicolas de Nicolay's 1576 Les navigations, peregrinations et voyages faicts en la Turquie includes "the tulbant [turban] of the merchant must be skie coloured".[2]

Displayed at right is the trang web colour sky blue.
Variations[edit]
Celeste[edit]
Celeste | |
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Hex triplet | #B2FFFF |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (178, 255, 255) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (180°, 30%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (95, 38, 192°) |
Source | S.Fantetti e C.Petracchi (2001). Il dizionario dei colori: nomi e valori in quadricromia. Zanichelli. ISBN 8808079953. |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Very light bluish green |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Celeste (Spanish: [θeˈleste, se-], Italian: [tʃeˈlɛste], ) is the colloquial name for the pale turquoise xanh rớt colour. The same word, meaning "of the sky", is used in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian for the colour. In English, this colour may also be referred lớn as Italian sky blue. The Japanese equivalent is known as sora iro or mizuiro, referring lớn the colour of the sky or its reflection on the sea.[3]
Celeste, that is, the pure Celeste strictly speaking (RGB 178,255,255; HEX #B2FFFF) is the colour of the sky with optimal visibility, when it is clear and sunny with no or low humidity, atmospheric dust, haze, resulting in a good diffusion of light xanh rớt without saturation, which causes the prevalence of the white of the warm colours of sunrise and sunset; in these excellent conditions, it's possible lớn see Celeste and its variations perpendicularly lớn the sun and toward the horizon, where the sky is illuminated directly and these shades merge with the golden light of solar rays, both in the morning and afternoon, when the star is approximately at an intermediate height between the latter and the zenith. Other variants, lượt thích Celeste polvere and Pallido, are visible towards the horizon when the sun is near lớn the zenith, always with discrete or better conditions of visibility.
Bleu celeste ("sky blue") is a rarely. occurring tincture in heraldry (not being one of the seven main colours or metals or the three "staynard colours"). This tincture is sometimes also called ciel or simply celeste. It is depicted in a lighter shade phàn nàn the range of shades of the more traditional tincture azure, which is the standard xanh rớt used in heraldry.[4]
Gradations[edit]
The Italian Wikipedia cites Il dizionario dei colori: nomi e valori in quadricromia by S.Fantetti and C.Petracchi and describes multiple variants of celeste as shown below, plus details as defined in the infobox above.[5]
colour | name | C | M | Y | K | R | G | B | HEX |
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celeste (sky xanh rớt, heavenly blue) | 030 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 178 | 255 | 255 | B2FFFF | |
celeste polvere powdery | 010 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 230 | 255 | 255 | E6FFFF | |
celeste pallido (pale) | 016 | 000 | 003 | 000 | 204 | 255 | 255 | CCFFFF | |
celeste velato Veiler overcast | 020 | 010 | 010 | 000 | 204 | 230 | 230 | CCE6E6 | |
celeste opaco opaque | 050 | 020 | 020 | 000 | 128 | 204 | 204 | 80CCCC |
Light sky blue[edit]
Light sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #87CEFA |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (135, 206, 250) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (203°, 46%, 98%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (80, 55, 233°) |
Source | X11 color names |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the trang web colour light sky blue. It is close in shade lớn baby xanh rớt.
Medium sky blue[edit]
Medium sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #80DAEB |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (128, 218, 235) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (190°, 46%, 92%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (82, 46, 210°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Very light greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the colour medium sky blue. This is the colour that is called sky blue in Crayola crayons. This colour was formulated by Crayola in 1958.
"Sky blue" appears in the 32, 48, 64, 96 and 120 packs of crayons.
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Vivid sky blue[edit]
Vivid sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #00CCFF |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 204, 255) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (192°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (76, 78, 226°) |
Source | Crayola C.P. |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the colour vivid sky blue.
Deep sky blue[edit]
Deep sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #00BFFF |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 191, 255) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (195°, 100%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (73, 83, 234°) |
Source | X11 |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Deep sky blue is an azure-cyan colour associated with deep shade of sky xanh rớt.
Deep sky xanh rớt is a trang web colour.
This is the colour on the colour wheel (RGB/HSV colour wheel) halfway between azure and cyan.[6]
The colour name deep sky xanh rớt came into use with the formulization of the X11 colour names over 1985–1989.
The normalized colour coordinates for deep sky xanh rớt are identical lớn Capri, which first came into use as a colour name in English in 1920.[7]

French sky blue[edit]
French sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #77B5FE |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (119, 181, 254) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (212°, 53%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (72, 74, 247°) |
Source | Pourpre.com |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the colour French sky blue, which is the tone of sky xanh rớt that is called sky blue (bleu ciel) in the Pourpre.com colour list, a colour list widely popular in France.
Spanish sky blue[edit]
Spanish sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #00AAE4 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 170, 228) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (195°, 100%, 89%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (65, 75, 234°) |
Source | Gallego and Sanz[8] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Spanish sky blue is the colour that is called celeste (the Spanish word for "sky blue") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide lớn colourations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a colour dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.
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Dark sky blue[edit]
Dark sky blue | |
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Hex triplet | #8CBED6 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (140, 190, 214) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (199°, 35%, 84%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (74, 36, 225°) |
Source | [9] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light greenish blue |
B: Normalized lớn [0–255] (byte) |
Displayed at right is the colour dark sky blue.
This is the colour called sky blue in Pantone.
The source of this colour is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" colour list, color #14-4318 TPX—Sky Blue.[9]
In culture[edit]
- Sports
- Argentina: Following the colours of the flag of Argentina, in which sky xanh rớt (celeste in Spanish) is the predominant colour, many Argentine sport teams feature the colour, including Racing Club de Avellaneda, Belgrano de Córdoba, Racing de Córdoba, Club Atlético Temperley, Atlético de Rafaela, Villa San Carlos, Gimnasia hắn Esgrima de Jujuy, Gimnasia hắn Tiro de Salta, and Gimnasia hắn Esgrima de Concepción del Uruguay. In addition, the Argentina national football team is known as the albicelestes due lớn the white-and-sky xanh rớt striping on their jerseys. This colour scheme is featured in other prominent national squads in popular sports such as rugby, field hockey, polo or volleyball.
- Australia: Sky xanh rớt is the main colour of the Australian rugby league team, New South Wales Blues, as it is the official colour of the state they represent.
- Formula One: The Benetton and its successor Renault team won the four drivers' and the constructors' World Championships of the squad with sky xanh rớt race cars, driven by Michael Schumacher at Benetton in 1994 and 1995 and Fernando Alonso at Renault in 2005 and 2006.
- Italy: Celeste is the main colour of the football teams Lazio of Rome and Napoli of Naples.
- Sweden: Football club Malmö FF, the club with the most Swedish championships, adopted sky xanh rớt shirts in 1920, which have been used for more phàn nàn a century.
- United Kingdom: Two professional football clubs in England traditionally wear sky xanh rớt shirts. Manchester City adopted sky xanh rớt as the main colour of their home page jersey in 1894 and have used that ever since then.[10] Coventry City also have had sky xanh rớt as the primary colour since the 1960s.[11]
- Uruguay: The Uruguay national football team has worn a sky xanh rớt jersey since 1910, after Uruguayan club team River Plate F.C. wore sky xanh rớt while defeating contemporary Argentine powerhouse Alumni Athletic Club. The national team is nicknamed La Celeste. As in Argentina, a number of Uruguayan club teams use sky xanh rớt in their uniforms, such as C.A. Cerro, Montevideo City Torque, Club Oriental de Football, and Rocha F.C.
See also[edit]
- Air Force blue
- Azure
- Bleu celeste (in heraldry)
- List of colours
- Marian blue
- Shades of blue
- RAL 5015 Sky blue
References[edit]
- ^ a b "sky blue". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Cited as 1585 in Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 204; màu sắc Sample of Sky Blue: Page 89 Plate 33 màu sắc Sample E6.
- ^ "Colours in Japanese". Omniglot.
- ^ Scott-Giles, C. W. (1958). Boutell's Heraldry (rev. ed.). London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co.
- ^ S.Fantetti e C.Petracchi (2001). Il dizionario dei colori: nomi e valori in quadricromia. Zanichelli. ISBN 8808079953.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill màu sắc Sample of Capri: Page 93 Plate 35 màu sắc Sample L7; The color Capri is shown as lying halfway between Cyan and Azure.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191
- ^ Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guía de coloraciones (Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guide lớn Colorations) Madrid: H. Blume. ISBN 84-89840-31-8
- ^ a b "PANTONE 14-4318 TPX Sky Blue". Pantone. Retrieved 19 December 2022. Displays a sky xanh rớt patch; exact rendering will depend upon the computer display used.
- ^ "Manchester City". Historical Kits. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Coventry City". Historical Kits. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
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