Everything about the color Blue
The meaning of the color Blue and color combinations to inspire your next design.
Blue is a color that has long been associated with royalty, art, military, business and nature, making it a color with a lot of applications. The first documented use of blue pigment is using blue azurite, a vivid deep blue naturally occurring mineral, used widely in ancient Egypt for decoration and jewelry. Later, in the Renaissance, the mineral was crushed and used as the expensive paint pigment ultramarine. The blue hex code is #0000FF.
From here blue would go on to live a long life in the world of art, from stained glass windows in the Middle Ages, fine blue and white porcelain in China through to famous applications by artists such as Renoir and Van Gogh.
US and UK public opinion surveys have found that blue is a majority of men and women’s preferred color, making it quite a popular hue.
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Information about Blue / #0000FF
In a RGB color space (made from three colored lights for red, green, and blue), hex #0000FF is made of 0% red, 0% green and 100% blue. In a CMYK color space (also known as process color, or four color, and used in color printing), hex #0000FF is made of 100% cyan, 100% magenta, 0% yellow and 0% black. Blue has a hue angle of 240 degrees, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 50%.
Color conversion
The hexadecimal color #0000FF has RGB values of R: 0, G: 0, B: 100 and CMYK values of C: 1, M: 1, Y: 0, K:0.
| Value | CSS | |
|---|---|---|
| Hex | 0000ff | #0000ff |
| RGB Decimal | 0, 0, 255 | rgb(0,0,255) |
| RGB Percentage | 0, 0, 100 | rgb(0%, 0%, 100%) |
| CMYK | 100, 100, 0, 0 | |
| HSL | 240°, 100, 50 | hsl(240°, 100%, 50%) |
| HSV (or HSB) | 240°, 100, 100 | |
| Web Safe | 0000ff | #0000ff |
| CIE-LAB | 32.297, 79.188, -107.86 | |
| XYZ | 18.044, 7.218, 95.03 | |
| xyY | 0.15, 0.06, 7.218 | |
| CIE-LCH | 32.297, 133.808, 306.285 | |
| CIE-LUV | 32.297, -9.405, -130.342 | |
| Hunter-Lab | 26.865, 75.488, -199.778 | |
| Binary | 00000000, 00000000, 11111111 |
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