The Magic of Colors … Blue
We are leaving the field of pure, unmixed process colors.
Even if the process colors have been unmixed, we have learned that colors are always mixed in a certain way, depending which color model you are using.
We are leaving the field of being able name the color in a specific way.
Mixed colors are named in a very subjective way.
Blue
| H 233° | L 21 | R 34 | C 100 | Hexa# |
| S 73% | a 22 | G 45 | M 100 | 222d80 |
| B 50% | b –54 | B 128 | Y 0 | |
| K 0 |
Most people would call this color mixed of cyan and magenta simply blue.
I would call it a very strong blue, dark blue.
Maybe we can call this special blue a kind of warm blue, since we have same amount of cyan and magenta in it, or when looking at the RGB values, there is not much but 13% of red in it.
Big companies often use blue.
Blue is used to express seriousness. Blue is the color of trust.
Blue is also a color that is associated with melancholia.
“I’ve got the blues.”
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