On the RGB and CMYK color wheel, Azure is defined as the colour halfway between blue and cyan. The colour halfway between blue and cyan on the RGB color wheel has a hex code of 0080FF.[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Azure pigment
On the RGB color wheel, "azure" (hexadecimal #0080FF) is defined as the color at 210 degrees, i.e., the hue halfway between blue and cyan. In the RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a television or computer screen, azure is created by adding a 50% of green light to a 100% of blue light.
In the X11 color system, which became a model for early web colors, azure is depicted as a pale cyan or white cyan.
A slab of lapis lazuli, the mineral from which azure took its name
The color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli. Lapis is the Latin word for "stone" and lāzulī is the genitive form of the Medieval Latinlāzulum, which is taken from the Arabicلازوردlāzaward[laːzwrd] (listenⓘ), itself from the Persianلاژوردlāžaward, which is the name of the stone in Persian[6] and also of a place where lapis lazuli was mined.[7][8]
The name of the stone came to be associated with its color. The Frenchazur, the Italianazzurro, the Polishlazur, Romanianazur and azuriu, the Portuguese and Spanishazul, Hungarianazúr, and the Catalanatzur, all come from the name and color of lapis lazuli. The dropping of the initial l in Romance languages may be a case of the linguistic phenomenon known as rebracketing, i.e. Romance speakers may have perceived the sound as the initial phoneme of the definitive article in their respective language.
The word was adopted into English from the French, and the first recorded use of it as a color name in English was in 1374 in Geoffrey Chaucer's work Troilus and Criseyde, where he refers to "a broche, gold and asure" (a brooch, gold and azure).[9][10][11]
Some languages, such as Italian, generally consider azure to be a basic colour, separate and distinct from blue. Some sources even go to the point of defining blue as a darker shade of azure.[12]
Azure also describes the color of the mineral azurite, both in its natural form and as a pigment in various paint formulations. In order to preserve its deep color, azurite was ground coarsely. Fine-ground azurite produces a lighter, washed-out color. Traditionally, the pigment was considered unstable in oil paints, and was sometimes isolated from other colors and not mixed.
The use of the term spread through the practice of heraldry, where "azure" represents a blue color in the system of tinctures. In engravings, it is represented as a region of parallel horizontal lines, or by the abbreviation az. or b. In practice, azure has been represented by any number of shades of blue. In later heraldic practice a lighter blue, called bleu celeste ("sky blue"), is sometimes specified.
According to the logic of the RGB color wheel, indigo colors are those colors with hue codes between 255 and 225 (degrees), azure colors are those colors with hue codes between 195 and 225, and cyan colors are those colors with hue codes between 165 and 195. Another way of describing it could be that cyan is a mixture of blue and green light, azure is a mixture of blue and cyan light, and indigo is a mixture of blue and violet light.
All of the colors shown below in the section shades of azure are referenced as having a hue between 195 and 225 degrees, with the exception of the very pale X11 web color azure – RGB (240, 255, 255) – which, with a hue of 180 degrees, is a tone of cyan, but follows the artistic meaning of azure as sky blue.
In natureEdit
Insects
Azure bluet (Enallagma aspersum), damselfly found in North America
Azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella), damselfly found in Europe
Azure hawker (Aeshna caerulea), dragonfly in the family Aeshnidae
Birds
Azure gallinule (Porphyrio flavirostris), bird in the rail family, Rallidae
^On colour plate 33 (page 89) of the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul, the colours on the right side of colour plate 33 from top to bottom represent the most highly saturated colours on the color wheel from cyan to azure, and the colours on the bottom of colour plate 33 from right to left represent the most highly saturated colours on the colour wheel from azure to blue. The colour sample that represents azure is colour sample L12 on Plate 33 on Page 89. See reference to Azure on Page 190 in the index. See also discussion of the color azure, Page 149.
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Azure blue redirects here For the RAL color see Azure blue RAL This article is about the color For the heraldic tincture see Azure heraldry For other uses see Azure disambiguation See also Shades of azure and Shades of blue Azure ˈ ae ʒ er ˈ eɪ ʒ er AZH er AY zher UK also ˈ ae z jʊer ˈ eɪ z jʊer AZ ure AY zure 2 3 4 is the color between cyan and blue on the spectrum of visible light It is often described as the color of the sky on a clear day 4 5 Azure Color coordinatesHex triplet 0080FFsRGBB r g b 0 128 255 HSV h s v 210 100 100 CIELChuv L C h 55 117 255 SourceOn the RGB and CMYK color wheel Azure is defined as the colour halfway between blue and cyan The colour halfway between blue and cyan on the RGB color wheel has a hex code of 0080FF 1 ISCC NBS descriptorVivid blueB Normalized to 0 255 byte H Normalized to 0 100 hundred Azure pigmentOn the RGB color wheel azure hexadecimal 0080FF is defined as the color at 210 degrees i e the hue halfway between blue and cyan In the RGB color model used to create all the colors on a television or computer screen azure is created by adding a 50 of green light to a 100 of blue light In the X11 color system which became a model for early web colors azure is depicted as a pale cyan or white cyan Contents 1 Etymology and history 2 Distinction among indigo azure and cyan 3 In nature 4 In culture 5 Astronomy 6 See also 7 ReferencesEtymology and history Edit nbsp A slab of lapis lazuli the mineral from which azure took its nameThe color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli Lapis is the Latin word for stone and lazuli is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin lazulum which is taken from the Arabic لازورد lazaward laːzwrd listen itself from the Persian لاژورد lazaward which is the name of the stone in Persian 6 and also of a place where lapis lazuli was mined 7 8 The name of the stone came to be associated with its color The French azur the Italian azzurro the Polish lazur Romanian azur and azuriu the Portuguese and Spanish azul Hungarian azur and the Catalan atzur all come from the name and color of lapis lazuli The dropping of the initial l in Romance languages may be a case of the linguistic phenomenon known as rebracketing i e Romance speakers may have perceived the sound as the initial phoneme of the definitive article in their respective language The word was adopted into English from the French and the first recorded use of it as a color name in English was in 1374 in Geoffrey Chaucer s work Troilus and Criseyde where he refers to a broche gold and asure a brooch gold and azure 9 10 11 Some languages such as Italian generally consider azure to be a basic colour separate and distinct from blue Some sources even go to the point of defining blue as a darker shade of azure 12 Azure also describes the color of the mineral azurite both in its natural form and as a pigment in various paint formulations In order to preserve its deep color azurite was ground coarsely Fine ground azurite produces a lighter washed out color Traditionally the pigment was considered unstable in oil paints and was sometimes isolated from other colors and not mixed The use of the term spread through the practice of heraldry where azure represents a blue color in the system of tinctures In engravings it is represented as a region of parallel horizontal lines or by the abbreviation az or b In practice azure has been represented by any number of shades of blue In later heraldic practice a lighter blue called bleu celeste sky blue is sometimes specified Distinction among indigo azure and cyan EditThis section s factual accuracy is disputed Relevant discussion may be found on Talk Azure color Please help to ensure that disputed statements are reliably sourced September 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message According to the logic of the RGB color wheel indigo colors are those colors with hue codes between 255 and 225 degrees azure colors are those colors with hue codes between 195 and 225 and cyan colors are those colors with hue codes between 165 and 195 Another way of describing it could be that cyan is a mixture of blue and green light azure is a mixture of blue and cyan light and indigo is a mixture of blue and violet light All of the colors shown below in the section shades of azure are referenced as having a hue between 195 and 225 degrees with the exception of the very pale X11 web color azure RGB 240 255 255 which with a hue of 180 degrees is a tone of cyan but follows the artistic meaning of azure as sky blue In nature EditInsectsAzure bluet Enallagma aspersum damselfly found in North America Azure damselfly Coenagrion puella damselfly found in Europe Azure hawker Aeshna caerulea dragonfly in the family AeshnidaeBirdsAzure gallinule Porphyrio flavirostris bird in the rail family Rallidae nbsp Azure hooded jay in a tree Azure jay Cyanocorax caeruleus bird in the crow family Corvidae Azure kingfisher Alcedo azurea bird in the river kingfisher family Alcedinidae nbsp Azure tit Azure tit Cyanistes cyanus bird in the tit family Paridae Azure crowned hummingbird Amazilia cyanocephala a hummingbird in the family Trochilidae Azure hooded jay Cyanolyca cucullata bird in the crow family Corvidae Azure naped jay Cyanocorax heilprini bird in the crow family Corvidae Azure rumped tanager Tangara cabanisi bird in the family Thraupidae Azure shouldered tanager Thraupis cyanoptera bird in the family Thraupidae Azure winged magpie Cyanopica cyana bird in the crow family CorvidaePlantsAzure bluet Houstonia caerulea flower found in the eastern United StatesIn culture EditCote d Azur Azure Coast is a name commonly used for the French Riviera part of France s southeastern coast on the Mediterranean In Chinese mythology the Azure Dragon is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations It is sometimes called the Azure Dragon of the East traditional Chinese 東方青龍 simplified Chinese 东方青龙 pinyin Dōngfang Qinglong Known as Seiryu 青竜 in Japan and Cheongryong 청룡 青龍 in Korea it represents the east and the spring season Savoy azure azzurro Savoia is a traditional national color for Italy taken from the traditional colors of the House of Savoy the ruling house of the Kingdom of Piedmont Sardinia that established the first modern united Italian state The association between azure and Italian nationalism led in the Italy national football team donning azure jerseys giving them the nickname the Azzurri the Azures It is also the color of the Italian state police Polizia di Stato Ken Nordine s 1966 album Colors features the song Azures The flag of Russia from 1991 to 1993 used azure Astronomy EditThe true color of the exoplanet HD 189733b determined by astronomers is azure blue 13 See also EditRAL 5009 Azure blue Shades of azure Lists of colorsReferences Edit On colour plate 33 page 89 of the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul the colours on the right side of colour plate 33 from top to bottom represent the most highly saturated colours on the color wheel from cyan to azure and the colours on the bottom of colour plate 33 from right to left represent the most highly saturated colours on the colour wheel from azure to blue The colour sample that represents azure is colour sample L12 on Plate 33 on Page 89 See reference to Azure on Page 190 in the index See also discussion of the color azure Page 149 Wells John C 2008 Longman Pronunciation Dictionary 3rd ed Longman ISBN 978 1 4058 8118 0 Jones Daniel 2011 Roach Peter Setter Jane Esling John eds Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary 18th ed Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 15255 6 a b azure Lexico UK English Dictionary Oxford University Press Archived from the original on 4 February 2020 azure Merriam Webster Dictionary Retrieved 4 January 2019 Oxford English Dictionary Senning Alexander 2007 lapis lazuli lazurite Elsevier s Dictionary of Chemoetymology Amsterdam Elsevier p 224 ISBN 978 0 444 52239 9 Weekley Ernest 1967 azure An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English New York Dover Publications p 97 azure n and adj Oxford English Dictionary OUP Retrieved 21 April 2011 Chaucer Geoffrey The Project Gutenberg EBook of Troilus and Criseyde Troilus and Criseyde Project Gutenberg Retrieved 21 April 2011 Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York 1930 McGraw Hill Page 190 Also Azure Dictionary Reference com Also Azur CNRTL fr in french Gabrielli Aldo Grande Dizionario Italiano Retrieved 9 July 2011 Blue and bizarre Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Azure color amp oldid 1176598244, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
