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Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional

colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model.[2] It lies between
violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes
colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength that's
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. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect
explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical
effect called aerial perspective.

Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The
semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and
ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most
expensive of all pigments.[3] In the eighth century Chinese artists used cobalt
blue to colour fine blue and white porcelain. In the Middle Ages, European artists
used 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 organic dyes and
mineral pigments. 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.[4]

In the United States and Europe, blue is the colour that both men and women are
most likely to choose as their favourite, with at least one recent survey showing
the same across several other countries, including China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
[5][6] Past surveys in the US and Europe have found that blue is the colour most
commonly associated with harmony, confidence, masculinity, knowledge, intelligence,
calmness, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and sadness.[7]

Etymology and linguistics


The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old
French bleu, a word of Germanic origin, related to the Old High German word blao
(meaning 'shimmering, lustrous').[8] In heraldry, the word azure is used for blue.
[9]

In Russian, Spanish,[10] Mongolian, Irish, and some other languages, there is no


single word for blue, but rather different words for light blue (голубой, goluboj;
Celeste) and dark blue (синий, sinij; Azul) (see Colour term).

Several languages, including Japanese and Lakota Sioux, use the same word to
describe blue and green. For example, in Vietnamese, the colour of both tree leaves
and the sky is xanh. In Japanese, the word for blue (青, ao) is often used for
colours that English speakers would refer to as green, such as the colour of a
traffic signal meaning "go". In Lakota, the word tȟó is used for both blue and
green, the two colours not being distinguished in older Lakota (for more on this
subject, see Blue–green distinction in language).

Linguistic research indicates that languages do not begin by having a word for the
colour blue.[11] Colour names often developed individually in natural languages,
typically beginning with black and white (or dark and light), and then adding red,
and only much later – usually as the last main category of colour accepted in a
language – adding the colour blue, probably when blue pigments could be
manufactured reliably in the culture using that language.[11]

Optics and colour theory


The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with
a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres.[12] Blues with
a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength gradually look more violet, while
those with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear more green.
Purer blues are in the middle of this range, e.g., around 470 nanometres.

Isaac Newton included blue as one of the seven colours in his first description of
the visible spectrum.[13] He chose seven colours because that was the number of
notes in the musical scale, which he believed was related to the optical spectrum.
He included indigo, the hue between blue and violet, as one of the separate
colours, though today it is usually considered a hue of blue.[14]

In painting and traditional colour theory, blue is one of the three primary colours
of pigments (red, yellow, blue), which can be mixed to form a wide gamut of
colours. Red and blue mixed together form violet, blue and yellow together form
green. Mixing all three primary colours together produces a dark brown. From the
Renaissance onward, painters used this system to create their colours (see RYB
colour model).

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