blue-gray
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Blue-gray (also blue-grey in British English) is a medium blue-gray color on the cool side of the color wheel. The name blue-gray was introduced by Crayola for a crayon color used from 1958 to 1990. The complementary color is #CC9966, a warm khaki or brown.
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Variations of blue-gray
- Lavender gray
- Iceberg
- Slate blue
- Blue bell
- Glaucous
- Steel blue
- Cadet grey
- Cool gray
- Air Force blue
- Shadow blue
- Dark blue-gray
- Roman silver
- Rhythm
- Payne's gray
- Blue-gray in nature
- Blue-gray in culture
- See also
- References
Blue-gray (also blue-grey in British English) is a medium blue-gray color on the cool side of the color wheel. The name blue-gray was introduced by Crayola for a crayon color used from 1958 to 1990. The complementary color is #CC9966, a warm khaki or brown.
It has historically been called livid, from the Latin lividus, meaning "a dull leaden-blue color". The word entered English in the fifteenth century, first in medical use to describe the bluish-gray discoloration of bruised or damaged flesh, the condition also expressed in the phrase "black and blue". The familiar modern sense of livid meaning furiously angry developed later, via the intermediate sense of a face turning pale or ashen with rage.
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