Powder blue
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Powder blue may refer to two different colors. Originally, it referred to a dark blue color, but it has since come to refer to a pale blue color, possibly because the name reminded people of baby powder and so people thought of it as a color similar to baby blue.[citation needed] The original color is now called dark powder blue.
The paler variant is often associated with powder snow.
Powder blue (web color powder blue)
| Powder blue | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #B0E0E6 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (176, 224, 230) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (187°, 23%, 90%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (86, 26, 202°) |
| Source | X11[1] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The web color powder blue is shown on the right.
The first recorded use of powder blue (meaning the pale blue color) as a color name in English was in 1774. [2]
Dark powder blue (smalt)
| Dark powder blue | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #003399 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 51, 153) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (220°, 100%, 60%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (26, 74, 261°) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The color dark powder blue, also called smalt, is displayed to the right. The original powder blue color referred to smalt, a crushed-glass product used in laundering and dying applications and of a deep, dark blue hue. The cobalt blue colored glass was itself made from zaffre.
The first recorded use of powder blue (meaning the dark blue color) as a color name in English was in 1707. [3]
References
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202. See color sample of powder blue, Page 95--Plate 36 Color Sample H2
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202. See color sample of powder blue (smalt), Page 109--Plate 43 Color Sample D11