Deep sky blue

Deep Sky Blue

— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #00BFFF
RGBB (r, g, b) (0, 191, 255)
HSV (h, s, v) (195°, 100%, 100 [1]%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Deep sky blue is a web color.

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

The traditional name for this color is Capri.[2]

The first use of Capri as a color name in English was in 1920.[3]

The color Capri in general is named for the azure-cyan color 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 color Capri is named after the color of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri.[4] as it appears on a bright sunny day. Today the island of Capri is a resort island popular with tourists.

The color name deep sky blue for this color did not come into use until the promulgation of the X11 color list in 1987.

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

References

  1. ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #00BFFF (Deep Sky Blue)(Capri):
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191
  4. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 152 Discussion of the color Capri

See also

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.