cerulean
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Key facts
- Color.title
- Cerulean Blue
- Color.hex
- 2A52BE
- Color.source
- Maerz and Paul
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- Vivid blue
- Color.title
- Curious Blue
- Color.hex
- 269DCE
- Color.source
- hexcolor.co
- Color.isccname
- Moderate cerulean
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- Pigment characteristics
- History
- In popular culture
- Notable occurrences
- Other color variations
- Pale cerulean
- Cerulean (Crayola)
- Cerulean frost
- Curious Blue
- In nature
- See also
- Explanatory notes
- References
- External links
{| align="right" |+ Cerulean as a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel | |- | |- | |}
The color cerulean (American English), or caerulean (British English, Commonwealth English), is a variety of the hue of blue that may range from a light azure blue to a more intense sky blue. Cerulean may also be mixed with the hue of green. The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590. The word is derived from the Latin word caeruleus (), "dark blue, blue, or blue-green", which in turn probably derives from , diminutive of , "heaven, sky".
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