Cerulean is a range of colors from deep blue, sky-blue, bright blue or azure color through greenish blue colors. The word cerulean is derived from the Latin word "caeruleum", which means sky or heavens. This was in turn from Latin caeruleus dark blue: resembling the blue of the sky. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... The RGB color model is an additive model in which red, green and blue (often used in additive light models) are combined in various ways to reproduce other colors. ... Red may be any of a number of similar colours at the lowest frequencies of light discernible by the human eye. ... Green is a color with many different shades, all within a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. ... The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hue altered The hue of this Painted Bunting is adjusted over the spectrum. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ... The term Blue may refer any of a number of similar colors. ... Categories: Stub | Colors ... Green is a color with many different shades, all within a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nm. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

Use in artistic painting

In classical times, this term was used to describe blue pigments, particularly mixtures of copper and cobaltous oxides. These early attempts to create sky blue colors were often less than satisfactory due to greenish hues and lack of permanence. When the pigment cerulean blue was invented, it largely superseded all these prior pigments. For animal and plant pigments, see Pigment, biology. ... General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic pinkish red Atomic mass 63. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An oxide is a chemical compound of oxygen with other chemical elements. ... An image with the hue altered The hue of this Painted Bunting is adjusted over the spectrum. ... Fugitive pigments, in painting, are non-permanent pigments (pigments that lighten in what is understood, said or defined to be a relatively short time when exposed to light). ... Cerulean blue is a cerulean (light blue or azure) pigment used in artistic painting. ...

Additional information

Cerulean is...

"...the color of the sky on a serene, crystal clear day,"

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Cerulean is the album title for the September 10, 1991 release by the band "The Ocean Blue".

Cerulean is also the name of a city in the English translation of Pokémon Red and Blue. Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue (known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Red and Green) are the first two installments of the Pokémon series of role-playing video games, released for the Game Boy in Japan in 1996. ...

Cerulean is important in several X Files episodes, as a hypnotic catalyst a criminal uses (repeating cerulean over and over again to lull his victim)

Cerulean is a name give to Azul in Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- for his blue hair. Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII- ) is a Japanese third person shooter role-playing game which is a sequel to the popular 1997 video game Final Fantasy VII. It is also part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series, a collection of video games and animated videos set within...

See also

• Cerulean blue
• List of colors