Concept

Sky blue

Summary
Sky blue is a shade of light blue comparable to that of a clear daytime sky. The term (as "sky blew") is attested from 1681. A 1585 translation of Nicolas de Nicolay's 1576 Les navigations, peregrinations et voyages faicts en la Turquie includes "the tulbant [turban] of the merchant must be skie coloured". Displayed at right is the web colour sky blue. Celeste (θeˈleste, se-, tʃeˈlɛste, sᵻˈlɛst) is the colloquial name for the pale turquoise blue colour. The same word, meaning "of the sky", is used in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian for the colour. In English, this colour may also be referred to as Italian sky blue. The Japanese equivalent is known as sora iro or mizuiro, referring to the colour of the sky or its reflection on the sea. Bleu celeste ("sky blue") is a rarely occurring tincture in heraldry (not being one of the seven main colours or metals or the three "staynard colours"). This tincture is sometimes also called ciel or simply celeste. It is depicted in a lighter shade than the range of shades of the more traditional tincture azure, which is the standard blue used in heraldry. 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. Displayed at right is the web colour light sky blue. It is close in shade to baby blue. Displayed at right is the colour medium sky blue. This is the colour that is called sky blue in Crayola crayons. This colour was formulated by Crayola in 1958. "Sky blue" appears in the 32, 48, 64, 96 and 120 packs of crayons. Displayed at right is the colour vivid sky blue. Deep sky blue is an azure-cyan colour associated with deep shade of sky blue. Deep sky blue is a web colour. This is the colour on the colour wheel () halfway between azure and cyan. The colour name deep sky blue came into use with the formulization of the X11 colour names over 1985–1989. The normalized colour coordinates for deep sky blue are identical to Capri, which first came into use as a colour name in English in 1920.
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