Blue Color

2006-11-06T04:23:00.000-08:00

Blue Color

Blue Color is calming. It can be strong and steadfast or light and friendly. Almost everyone likes some shade of the color blue.

Nature of Blue:
A natural color, from the blue of the sky, blue color is a universal blue color. The cool, calming effect of blue makes time pass more quickly and it can help you sleep. Blue is a good color for bedrooms. However, too much blue could dampen spirits.

Culture of Blue:
In many diverse cultures blue is significant in religious beliefs, brings peace, or is believed to keep the bad spirits away.

Using Blue: A deep royal blue color or azure conveys richness and perhaps even a touch of superiority. Navy blue is almost black and is a bit warmer than lighter blues. Combine a light and dark blue to convey trust and truthfulness — banker's colors. Although blue is a year-round color, pastel blues, especially along with pinks and pale yellows suggest springtime while deep blue is a colder weather color. Create a conservative but sophisticated look with subtle contrast by combining light and dark shades of blue.

Good blue
• True blue - someone loyal and faithful
• Out of the blue - unexpected (could be positive or negative)
• Blue Color ribbon - first rate, top prize
• Blueblood - person of noble birth, royalty
• Bluestocking - well-read or scholarly woman
• Bluebook - register of socially prominent people
• The Blues (capitalized) - popular style of music sometimes characterized by melancholy melodies and words
• Blue Color - Blue eyes (also see Bad blue words)

Bad blue
• Feeling blue - feeling sad or depressed
• Blue devils - feelings of depression
• The blues (not capitalized) - depression, state of sadness
• Blue Monday - feeling sad
• Baby blues - post-partum depression
• Singing the blues - bemoaning one's circumstances
• Blue laws - laws originally intended to enforce certain moral standards
• Blue language - profanity
• Bluenose - puritanical individual
• Into the blue - entering the unknown or escape to parts unknown
• Out of the blue - unexpected (could be positive or negative)

Blue Color Hex Decimal Co# Description
0000FF 0,0,255 1 Bright or Royal blue
000099 0,0,153 2 Dark Blue Color
0033CC 0,51,204 3 Medium blue
000080 0,0,128 4 Navy
006699 0,102,153 5 Grayed or dull blue
0066FF 0,102,255 6 Light, bright blue
6633FF 102,51,255 7 Periwinkle or lavender blue
3399FF 51,153,255 8 Light blue
6699FF 102,153,255 9 Light lavender blue
00CCFF 0,204,255 10 Light blue
00FFFF 0,255,255 11 Turquoise
6666FF 102,102,255 12 Dark Periwinkle
7ADAE1 122,218,225 Sky blue color
609C98 96,156,152 Cadet Blue
38B0C0 56,176,192 Ocean Blue
00DCFF 0,220,255 Sky Blue

WHY IS WATER BLUE?
Reproduced from J. Chem. Edu., 1993, 70(8), 612

Charles L. Braun and Sergei N. Smirnov
Department of Chemistry
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755

Over the years, we have often asked scientific colleagues why it is that water is blue. Common responses have included light scattering -- after all the sky is blue -- and coloration by dissolved impurities - Cu2+ has been a popular suggestion. However, the work described below demonstrates that water has an intrinsic color, and that this color has a unique origin. This intrinsic color is easy to see, and has been seen by the authors in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas and in Colorado mountain lakes. Because the absorption which gives water its color is in the red end of the visible spectrum, one sees blue, the complementary color of red, when observing light that has passed through several meters of water. This color of water can also be seen in snow and ice as an intense blue color scattered back from deep holes in fresh snow. Blue to bluegreen hues are also scattered back when light deeply penetrates frozen waterfalls and glaciers.

Water owes its intrinsic blueness to selective absorption in the red part of its visible spectrum. The absorbed photons promote transitions to high overtone and combination states of the nuclear motions of the molecule, i.e. to highly excited vibrations. To our knowledge the intrinsic blueness of water is the only example from nature in which color originates from vibrational transitions. Other materials owe their colors to the interaction of visible light with the electrons of the substances. Their colors may originate from resonant interactions between photons and matter such as absorption, emission, and selective reflection or from non-resonant processes such as Rayleigh scattering, interference, diffraction, or refraction, but in each case, the photons interact primarily or exclusively with electrons. The details of the mechanism by which water is vibrationally colored will be discussed in the paragraphs which follow.

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These blues and gray create a dark, conservative look.

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Brighten this combo of shades of blues with a dash of orange.

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Shades of the sixties with blue, orange, and pink.

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Vary the look here by using orange as the accent or the medium blue as the accent.

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It's still orange and blue color but with a more subdued look. A dash of bright white keeps it from being too subdued.

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More attraction between yellow and blue (both a light and a darker blue) with a dash of orange thrown in.

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Show your passion for purple and your bias toward blue with this cool color palette.

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Accent these blues with a dash of yellow and pink and blue color.

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