Baby blue

Baby blue is a tint of blue, one of the pastel colors.^[1]

The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.^[2]

1 Variations of baby blue
2 Baby blue in human culture
3 See also
4 References

Variations of baby blue

Bubbles

Bubbles
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`E7FEFF`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(231, 254, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(183°, 9%, 100^[3]%)
Source		Xona.com Color List
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Bubbles is a pale tint of baby blue.

The color name bubbles has been in use since 2001 when the Xona.com Color List was first promulgated.

Beau blue

Beau blue
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`BCD4E6`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(188, 212, 230)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(206°, 18%, 90^[4]%)
Source		Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Beau blue is a light tone of baby blue.

The source of this color is the color that is called beau blue in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.^[5]

Baby blue eyes

Baby blue eyes
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`A1CAF1`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(161, 202, 241)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(209°, 35%, 95^[6]%)
Source		Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Baby blue eyes is a rich tone of baby blue.

The source of this color is the color that is called baby blue eyes in the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.^[7]

Baby blue in human culture

Gender

In Western culture, the color baby blue is often associated with baby boys (and baby pink for baby girls), particularly in clothing and linen and shoes. This is a recent tradition, however, and until the 1940s the convention was exactly the opposite: pink was considered the appropriate color for boys as the more masculine and "decided" while blue was the more delicate and dainty color and therefore appropriate for girls.^[8]^[9]^[10]

Law enforcement

In the late 1960s, New Age philosopher Alan Watts, who lived in Sausalito, a suburb of San Francisco, suggested that police cars be painted baby blue and white instead of black and white. This proposal was implemented in San Francisco in the late 1970s.^[11]

References

^ Display on ISCC-NBS color list of various tints of the color Baby Blue:
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190; Color Sample of Baby Blue: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample E2
^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #E7FEFF (Bubbles):
^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color # BCD4E6 (Beau Blue):
^ Plochere Color System:
^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #A1CAF1 (Baby Blue Eyes):
^ Plochere Color System:
^ Merkin, Daphne. "Gender Trouble", The New York Times Style Magazine, 12 March 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007.
^ Orenstein, Peggy. "What's Wrong With Cinderella?", The New York Times Magazine, 24 December 2006, retrieved 10 December 2007. Orenstein writes: "When colors were first introduced to the nursery in the early part of the 20th century, pink was considered the more masculine hue, a pastel version of red. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, was thought to be dainty. Why or when that switched is not clear, but as late as the 1930s a significant percentage of adults in one national survey held to that split."
^ guardian.co.uk, The Power of Pink'. 12 December 2009. Guardian on the 'PinkStinks' campaign
^ Baby Blue police cars of the San Francisco Police Department in the late 1970s:

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.

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	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	Yale Blue

The samples shown above are only indicative.