Baby blue
Baby blue is a tint of blue, one of the pastel colors.[1]
The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.[2]
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[edit] Variations of baby blue
[edit] Bubbles
| Bubbles | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #E7FEFF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (231, 254, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (183°, 9%, 100[3]%) |
| Source | Xona.com Color List | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Bubbles is a pale tint of baby blue.
The color name bubbles has been in use since 2001 when the Xona.com Color List was first promulgated.
[edit] Beau blue
| Beau blue | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #BCD4E6 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (188, 212, 230) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (206°, 18%, 90[4]%) |
| Source | Plochere | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Beau blue is a light tone of baby blue.
The source of this color is the color that is called beau blue in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[5]
[edit] Baby blue eyes
| Baby blue eyes | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #A1CAF1 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (161, 202, 241) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (209°, 35%, 95[6]%) |
| Source | Plochere | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Baby blue eyes is a rich tone of baby blue.
The source of this color is the color that is called baby blue eyes in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[7]
[edit] Baby blue in human culture
- In Western culture, the color baby blue is often associated with baby boys (and baby pink for baby girls), particularly in clothing and linen and shoes. This is a recent tradition, however, and until the 1940s the convention was exactly the opposite: pink was considered the appropriate color for boys as the more masculine and "decided" while blue was the more delicate and dainty color and therefore appropriate for girls.[8][9][10]
- In the late 1960s, New Age philosopher Alan Watts, who lived in Sausalito, a suburb of San Francisco, suggested that police cars be painted baby blue and white instead of black and white. This proposal was implemented in San Francisco in the late 1970s.[11]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Display on ISCC-NBS color list of various tints of the color Baby Blue:
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Baby Blue: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample E2
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #E7FEFF (Bubbles):
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color # BCD4E6 (Beau Blue):
- ^ Plochere Color System:
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #A1CAF1 (Baby Blue Eyes):
- ^ Plochere Color System:
- ^ Merkin, Daphne. "Gender Trouble", The New York Times Style Magazine, 12 March 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007.
- ^ Orenstein, Peggy. "What's Wrong With Cinderella?", The New York Times Magazine, 24 December 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007. Orenstein writes: "When colors were first introduced to the nursery in the early part of the 20th century, pink was considered the more masculine hue, a pastel version of red. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, was thought to be dainty. Why or when that switched is not clear, but as late as the 1930s a significant percentage of adults in one national survey held to that split."
- ^ guardian.co.uk, The Power of Pink'. 12 December 2009. Guardian on the 'PinkStinks' campaign
- ^ Baby Blue police cars of the San Francisco Police Department in the late 1970s:
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