Light blue
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Light Blue (#ADD8E6)
Light Blue is a web color on the official list of web colors. Sometimes the color light blue is erroneously confused with baby blue.
[edit] Light blue
| Light Blue | ||
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| Hex triplet | #ADD8E6 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (173, 216, 230) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (240°, 90%, 80%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The web color light blue is displayed in the color box at right.
The first recorded use of "light blue" as a color term in English is in the year 1915 . [1]
[edit] Light blue in human culture
- In historical atlases published in Germany, light blue is traditionally used as a color to represent Germany, as opposed to pink for England, purple for France, and light green for Russia. [2]
- Somalia is the only nation which has light blue as the dominant color of its flag. The flag consists of a white star upon a light blue background.
- The color light blue is used to represent boys as opposed to the color pink which is used to represent girls.
- The color light blue is commonly regarded as calming and relaxing. Because of this, sometimes it is used to paint hospital rooms.
- Since the color light blue reminds many people of water (although the actual color of water is cyan), light blue is a popular color for painting bathrooms or for porcelain bathroom fixtures.
- Prominent Neo-Conservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, Max Boot, Norman Podhoretz, William Kristol, and Dick Cheney, as well as their ally George W. Bush who support the concept of an American Empire are known in Washington D.C. as having a tendency to wear light blue ties. [3]
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a light blue bandana means that one is into the fetish of oral sex. [4]
- Light blue is sometimes used as a color for the University of Cambridge, in contrast with the University of Oxford which has adopted a dark blue color.
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190
- ^ See the Grosshistoricher Weltatlas, 1965 edition (Other German historical atlases use these same colors.)
- ^ George W. Bush’s light blue ties:
- ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114
