Talk:Cerulean

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This overlaps a lot with cerulean blue, but technically cerulean blue is a pigment with a specific shade, while "cerulean" is a broader term for sky color (according to OED). So I can't make up my mind whether we should merge the two, and if so, under which name. Stan 16:04, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I guess you'd be best putting the narrower term under the broader one if you're merging the two. - Jimp 24May05

Cerulean is also the name of a city in the English translation of the original Pokemon games. is the above piece of information notable? --Melaen 00:32, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge request

Cerulean blue should be merged into here, and the article should focus on the pigment, not the "color". It can be mentioned that "cerulean" is also used as a name for blue-green colors, but the pigment is the encyclopedic part. --jacobolus (t) 21:33, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure I agree with this decision. A pigment and a color are distinct things. For example, for black (the color) we have several pigments: bone black, lamp black and etc.; and also dyes. Should everything in the world that happens to be "one color" be listed on the same page?

Some time back, this had been discussed and the conclusion was to leave them separate, because other reference sources seemed to distinguish the two. Cerulean as a color is not one color; it is a range from cyan to pure blue (desatuated). The whole point of the pigment as a distinctive item was its pure "blue" character, when other pigments in that day and age all had greenish characters. CoyneT ^talk 02:06, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

(But obviously I can live with it. CoyneT ^talk 00:25, 6 December 2007 (UTC))