Blue is one of my favorite colors
That is interesting - most blues actually contain a slight mixture of other colors, like green or violet.
I didn't think green would be in the mix!  Although, I know blue is in green, of course.
It has been an important color in a lot of decorations and art since ancient times, so it's been used creatively for a long time.
I didn't think green would be in the mix!  Although, I know blue is in green, of course.
Many years ago the Chinese even used cobalt blue for blue and white porcelain.
That's true.  I think in France there is a cathedral with stained glass that is a shade of blue that no one can figure out how they created.
it in the windows of cathedrals. Europeans wore clothing coloured with the vegetable dye woad until it was replaced by the finer indigo from America. In the 19th century, synthetic blue dyes and pigments gradually replaced mineral pigments and synthetic dyes. Dark blue became a common colour for military uniforms and later, in the late 20th century, for business suits. Because blue has commonly been associated with harmony, it was chosen as the colour of the flags of the United Nations and the European Union.
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Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering.