Cerulean facts for kids
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Cerulean is a range of colours from teal-blue, sky-blue, bright blue, or azure to deep cyan. The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caeruleum, which means "sky" or "heavens". This was in turn from Latin caeruleus deep blue: resembling the blue of the sky.
In classical times, this term was used to describe blue pigments, particularly mixtures of copper and cobaltous oxides, called genuine cerulean. These early attempts to create sky blue colours were often less than satisfactory due to greenish hues and lack of permanence. When the artificial pigment cerulean blue was invented people started using this instead.
The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590.
Tones of cerulean color comparison chart
| Name | Color | HEX Code | Red | Green | Blue | Hue | Sat | Lum | Source |
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| Spanish Cerulean | #A8D9F3 | 168 | 217 | 243 | 201° | 76% | 81% | Gallego & Sanz (Ceruleo Inspecifico) | |
| Pale Cerulean | #98B4D4 | 152 | 180 | 212 | 212° | 41% | 71% | Pantone TPX 15-4020 | |
| Cerulean Frost | #6D9BC3 | 109 | 155 | 195 | 208° | 42% | 60% | (Crayola Silver Swirls) | |
| Light Artificial Cerulean | #3AA1C1 | 58 | 161 | 193 | 194° | 54% | 49% | (Gallego & Sanz) Ceruleo Sustituto Aclarado | |
| Bright Cerulean | #02A4D3 | 2 | 164 | 211 | 193° | 98% | 42% | (Crayola Cerulean) | |
| Genuine Cerulean | #0096D6 | 0 | 150 | 210 | 198° | 100% | 42% | Gallego & Sanz Ceruleo Genuino | |
| French Cerulean | #0F9DEB | 15 | 157 | 235 | 201° | 88% | 49% | Pourpre.com (Intense) Ceruleen Intense | |
| French Cerulean | #357AB7 | 53 | 122 | 183 | 208° | 55% | 46% | Pourpre.com (Somber) Ceruleen Sombre | |
| Cerulean Blue Hue | #3176AF | 49 | 118 | 173 | 207° | 56% | 44% | Liquitex Basic Colors #470 | |
| Cerulean Blue | #2A52BE | 42 | 82 | 190 | 224° | 64% | 45% | Maerz & Paul (Cerulean blue pigment) | |
| Cerulean | #007BA7 | 0 | 123 | 167 | 196° | 100% | 33% | (Cerulean pigment) | |
| Artificial Cerulean | #006594 | 0 | 101 | 148 | 199° | 100% | 29% | Gallego & Sanz Ceruleo Sustituto | |
| Dark Cerulean | #08457E | 8 | 69 | 126 | 209° | 88% | 26% |
Related pages
Images for kids
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Cerulean blue PB35
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Berthe Morisot, Summer's Day, (1879)
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A sample swatch of cerulean blue hue oil paint. "Hue" in this instance means that other pigments have been used to mimic the color of oil paint that contains the original pigment.
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Cerulean blue pigment in oil. On the left as a standoil glaze over zinc white; on the right as a mass tone in oil-based paint.
See also
In Spanish: Cerúleo para niños
