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What color is blue

It is a member of the three primary colors of red, green and blue light, in the three primary colors of its wavelength is the shortest, 440 ~ 475nm, belonging to the short wavelength. Color code, the network code for #0000FF, RGB red, green and blue light system for red 0 green 0 blue 255. CMYK four-color printing system for the green C100 magenta M100 yellow Y0 black K0. HSV system for the primary colors 240 Saturation 100 Brightness 100.

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Blue is very pure, usually makes people associate it with the ocean, sky, water, and the universe. The pure blue color shows a beauty, calmness, sanity, tranquility and vastness.

Because of the calm nature of blue, with rational and accurate imagery, in commercial design, emphasizing science and technology, efficiency of the goods or corporate image, most of the choice of blue as the standard color, corporate color, such as computers, automobiles, photocopiers, photographic equipment and so on.

Additionally, blue also represents melancholy, which is influenced by Western culture, and this imagery is also used in literary works or sensual appeal of commercial design.

Two, sky blue

Sale of sky blue pigments are usually tubes and pigment blocks, but also pigment powder. Traditional Chinese painting pigment, its generally divided into two categories of mineral pigment and vegetable pigment, from the use of history, should be the first mineral, after the plant, like using ink first pine smoke, after the oil smoke.

The bright color left on the rock paintings in ancient times, according to the laboratory, it is found that mineral pigment (such as cinnabar) is used, and the remarkable feature of mineral pigment is that it is not easy to fade, and the color is bright. Plant pigments are mainly extracted from trees and flowers. Sky Blue is a modern chemical pigment.

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