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Light blue
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Light Blue is a web color on the official list of web colors. Sometimes the color light blue is erroneously confused with Baby blue.
| Light Blue | ||
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| Hex triplet | #ADD8E6 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (173, 216, 230) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (240°, 50%, 80%) |
| Source | [Unsourced] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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The web color light blue is displayed in the color box at right.
The first recorded use of "light blue" as a color term in English is in the year 1915. [1]
Gender
- The color light blue is used to represent boys as opposed to the color pink which is used to represent girls.
Geography
- In historical atlases published in Germany, light blue is commonly used as a color to represent Germany, as opposed to pink for England, violet for France, and light green for Russia.
Interior Design
- The color light blue is commonly regarded as calming and relaxing. Because of this, sometimes it is used to paint hospital rooms.
- Since the color light blue reminds many people of water (although the actual color of water is cyan), light blue is a popular color for painting bathrooms or for porcelain bathroom fixtures.
Academia
- Light blue is sometimes used as a synonym for the University of Cambridge, in contrast with the University of Oxford which has adopted a dark blue color.
Religion
- in christianism Light blue represent the deadly sin of Sloth
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190