This article is about the pale tone of azure. For the animated film, see Wonderful Days. For the rapper, see SkyBlu. For the answer to the question "Why is the sky blue?", see Rayleigh scattering. For the album by the German musical band, Passport, see Ataraxia.

Sky Blue
— Common connotations —
boys, daylight, water, air, paleness
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`87CEEB`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(135, 206, 235)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(197°, 43%, 92%)
Source		X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web colour sky blue.

Sky blue is the name of a colour, first recorded in English in the 1728 Cyclopædia of Ephraim Chambers.^[1] Prior to the Chambers reference, the colour 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".^[2]^[3]

Sky blue is a Crayola colour, and appears in the 32, 48, 64, 96 and 120 packs of crayons, as well as the 12, 24, 36 and 50 packs of coloured pencils

Variations of sky blue [link]

Celeste [link]

Celeste
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`B2FFFF`
RGB^B	(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.
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Celeste (pronounced che-les-te in Italian, se-les-te in Spanish and 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 colour is most often referred to as sky blue.

Gradations of Celeste [link]

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.^[4]

name	C	M	Y	R	G	B	HEX
celeste (sky blue, heavenly blue)	030	000	000	178	255	255	B2FFFF
celeste polvere (dusty)	010	000	000	230	255	255	E6FFFF
celeste pallido (pale)	020	000	000	204	255	255	CCFFFF
celeste velato (veiled / overcast)	020	010	010	204	230	230	CCE6E6
celeste opaco (opaque)	050	020	020	128	204	204	80CCCC

Bianchi bicycles [link]

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.^[5] In Anglophone countries Celeste is sometimes reported as Pantone -#332 (Seafoam green^[6]) (or #333), and with various other shades.

Light sky blue [link]

Light Sky Blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`87CEFA`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(135, 206, 250)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(203°, 46%, 98%)
Source		X11 color names
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web colour light sky blue.

Deep sky blue [link]

Deep Sky Blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`00BFFF`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(0, 191, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(195°, 100%, 100 ^[7]%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Deep sky blue is an azure-cyan colour associated with deep sky blue.

Deep sky blue is a web colour.

This colour is the colour on the colour wheel (RGB/HSV colour wheel) halfway between azure and cyan.

The traditional name for this colour is Capri.^[8]

The first use of Capri as a colour name in English was in 1920.^[9]

The colour Capri in general is named for the azure-cyan colour 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 colour Capri is named after the colour 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 colour name deep sky blue for this colour did not come into use until the promulgation of the X11 colour list in 1987.

The name Capri is still used for this colour as well as the name deep sky blue.

Sky blue in human culture [link]

Music

Sky Blue Sky is the sixth studio album by Chicago rock band Wilco, released on May 15, 2007 by Nonesuch Records.

References [link]

^ ww.oed.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/Entry/181142 "sky-blue, n. and adj.". Oxford English Dictionary. OUP. https://w ww.oed.com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/Entry/181142. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
^ "sky-coloured | sky-colored, adj.". Oxford English Dictionary. OUP. https://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
^ S.Fantetti e C.Petracchi (2001). Il dizionario dei colori: nomi e valori in quadricromia. Zanichelli. ISBN 8808079953.
^ Design Classics, Cycling Plus, UK, December 2000
^ Sea Foam Green
^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of colour #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

External links [link]

v t e Shades of blue
Air Force blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Bleu de France	Blue	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue	Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue

Celeste	Cerulean	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue	Dodger blue	Duke blue

Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal blue	Glaucous	Electric indigo	International Klein Blue	Iris	Light blue	Majorelle Blue

Maya blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue	Oxford Blue	Palatinate blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Phthalo blue	Powder blue

Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue	Steel blue	Teal	Tiffany Blue	True Blue	Tufts Blue	Turquoise

UCLA Blue	Ultramarine	Violet-Blue	Yale Blue

The samples shown above are only indicative.

v t e Shades of cyan
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

The samples shown above are only indicative.

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Sky Blue (album)

Sky Blue is the fifth studio album by American jazz composer, Maria Schneider. The album was released in 2007 through ArtistShare and was nominated for two 2008 Grammy Awards for "Best Large Jazz Ensemble" and "Best Instrumental Composition" (for 'Cerulean Skies')

Track listing

"The 'Pretty' Road" - 13:28

"Aires de Lando" - 10:00

"Rich's Piece" - 9:34

"Cerulean Skies" - 21:57

"Sky Blue" - 8:08

Personnel

Steve Wilson - Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Alto flute

Charles Pillow - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo, Alto flute, Bass Flute

Rich Perry - Tenor Saxophone, Flute

Donny McCaslin - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet

Scott Robinson - Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass clarinet,

Tony Kadleck - Trumpet, Flügelhorn

Jason Carder - Trumpet, Flügelhorn

Laurie Frink - Trumpet, Flügelhorn

Ingrid Jensen - Trumpet, Flügelhorn

Keith O’Quinn - Trombone

Ryan Keberle - Trombone

Marshall Gilkes - Trombone

George Flynn - Bass Trombone, Contrabass Trombone

Ben Monder - Guitar

Frank Kimbrough - Piano

PlayStation Eye

The PlayStation Eye (trademarked PLAYSTATION Eye) is a digital camera device, similar to a webcam, for the PlayStation 3. The technology uses computer vision and gesture recognition to process images taken by the camera. This allows players to interact with games using motion and color detection as well as sound through its built-in microphone array. It is the successor to the EyeToy for the PlayStation 2, which was released in 2003.

The peripheral was launched in a bundle with The Eye of Judgment in the United States on October 23, 2007, in Japan and Australia on October 25, 2007 and in Europe on October 26, 2007.

The PlayStation Eye was also released as a stand-alone product in United States, Europe, and Australia. EyeToy designer Richard Marks stated that the EyeToy was used as a model for the rough cost design. In 2013 Sony announced the PlayStation Eye will be replaced with the PlayStation Camera for the PlayStation 4 console to compete with Microsoft Corporation's Kinect and Nintendo's Wii Remote Plus.

Dodger blue

Dodger blue is a rich bright tone of the color azure named for its use in the uniform of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It is also a web color used in the design of web pages. The web color is not used in the Dodgers' uniform but rather resembles the lighter blue used throughout Dodger Stadium.

History

The Brooklyn Dodgers were never contemporarily referred to as wearing Dodger Blue, although some now refer to them as representing "True Dodger Blue." The concept of Dodger Blue originated with Manager Tommy Lasorda, who popularized it. Lasorda managed the Los Angeles franchise for many years, and was on the player roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers, though he played for them only very briefly.

Uniform color

Dodger Uniform Blue #005A9C

Dodger Blue #1E90FF

The actual blue that the Dodgers currently wear is RGB-hex #005596.

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