Celeste (colour)
| Celeste | ||
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| Hex triplet | #B2FFFF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (178, 255, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (180°, 30%, 100%) |
| Source | S.Fantetti e C.Petracchi (2001). Il dizionario dei colori: nomi e valori in quadricromia. Zanichelli . ISBN 8808079953. |
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Celeste (pronounced che-les-te in Italian, Se-lest in English) is the colloquial name for the turquoise blue colour associated with the Italian Bianchi Bicycle Company and sometimes known as Bianchi Green. In Italian, as the name indicates (Celestial), it is an attempt to reproduce the colour of clear skies. In English, this color is most often referred to as sky blue.
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[edit] Bianchi bicycles
Bianchi bicycles are traditionally painted celeste, also known as Bianchi Green (and sometimes, incorrectly Tiffany Blue). Contradictory myths say celeste is the colour of the Milan sky; the eye colour of a former queen for whom Edoardo Bianchi made a bicycle; and that it was a mixture of surplus military paint.
The exact shade of turquoise used by the company has varied over time, but has always been described as Celeste.[1] In Anglophone countries Celeste is sometimes reported as Pantone -#332 (Seafoam green[2]) (or #333), and with various other shades.
[edit] Italy
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.[3]
[edit] Gradations of Celeste
| colour | name | C | M | Y | K | R | G | B | HEX |
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| celeste (sky blue, heavenly blue) | 030 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 178 | 255 | 255 | B2FFFF | |
| celeste polvere (dusty) | 010 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 230 | 255 | 255 | E6FFFF | |
| celeste pallido (pale) | 020 | 000 | 000 | 000 | 204 | 255 | 255 | CCFFFF | |
| celeste velato (veiled / overcast) | 020 | 010 | 010 | 000 | 204 | 230 | 230 | CCE6E6 | |
| celeste opaco (opaque) | 050 | 020 | 020 | 000 | 128 | 204 | 204 | 80CCCC |
[edit] Sky blue
| Sky Blue | ||
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| — Common connotations — | ||
| boys, daylight, water, air, paleness | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #87CEEB | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (135, 206, 235) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (197°, 43%, 92%) |
| Source | X11 color names | |
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Displayed at right is the web color sky blue.
The first recorded use of sky blue as a color name in English was in 1728 in the Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers.[4] Prior to the Chambers reference, the color had first been used in 1585 in a book by Nicolas De Nicolay where he stated "the tulbant of the merchant must be skie coloured".[5][6]
Sky blue is a Crayola color, and appears in the 32, 48, 64, 96 and 120 packs of crayons, as well as the 12, 24, 36 and 50 packs of colored pencils
[edit] Deep sky blue
| Deep Sky Blue | ||
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| Hex triplet | #00BFFF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 191, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (195°, 100%, 100 [7]%) |
| Source | X11 | |
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Deep sky blue is an azure-cyan color associated with deep sky blue.
Deep sky blue is a web color.
This color is the color on the color wheel (RGB/HSV color wheel) halfway between azure and cyan.
The traditional name for this color is Capri.[8]
The first use of Capri as a color name in English was in 1920.[9]
The color Capri in general is named for the azure-cyan color of the Mediterranean sea around the island of Capri off Italy, the site of several villas belonging to the Roman Emperor Tiberius, including his Imperial residence in his later years, the Villa Jovis. Specifically, the color Capri is named after the color of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri.[10] as it appears on a bright sunny day. Today the island of Capri is a resort island popular with tourists.
The color name deep sky blue for this color did not come into use until the promulgation of the X11 color list in 1987.
The name Capri is still used for this color as well as the name deep sky blue.
[edit] Light sky blue
| Light Sky Blue | ||
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| Hex triplet | #87CEFA | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (135, 206, 250) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (203°, 46%, 98%) |
| Source | X11 color names | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the web color light sky blue.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Design Classics, Cycling Plus, UK, December 2000
- ^ Sea Foam Green
- ^ S.Fantetti e C.Petracchi (2001). Il dizionario dei colori: nomi e valori in quadricromia. Zanichelli. ISBN 8808079953.
- ^ ww.oed.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/Entry/181142 "sky-blue, n. and adj.". Oxford English Dictionary. OUP. http://w ww.oed.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/Entry/181142. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ "sky-coloured | sky-colored, adj.". Oxford English Dictionary. OUP. http://www.oed.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/Entry/181145. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 204; Color Sample of Sky Blue: Page 89 Plate 33 Color Sample E6
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #00BFFF (Deep Sky Blue)(Capri):
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Color Sample of Capri: Page 93 Plate 35 Color 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
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 152 Discussion of the color Capri
[edit] External links
- Bianchi Corporate site
- Bianchi USA US site
- International English-language site
- Sea Foam Green
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| Alice blue | Aqua | Aquamarine | Celeste | Cerulean | Cyan | Electric blue | Jungle green | Magic mint | Mint |
| Persian green | Pine green | Robin egg blue | Sea green | Skobeloff | Tiffany Blue | Teal | Turquoise | ||
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