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Azure Sea
Azure may refer to: Colour * Azure (color), a hue of blue ** Azure (heraldry) ** Shades of azure, shades and variations Arts and media * Azure (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), ''Azure'' (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), 1987 * Azure (Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell album), 2013 * Azure (design magazine), ''Azure'' (design magazine), Toronto, Ontario * Azure (heraldry), a blue tincture on flags or coats of arms * Azure (magazine), ''Azure'' (magazine), a periodical on Jewish thought and identity * Azure (painting), ''Azure'' (painting), by Gustave Van de Woestijne * Azure (song), "Azure" (song), by Duke Ellington * "Azure", a song by the 3rd and the Mortal from the album ''Painting on Glass'' Computing * Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform * Mozilla Azure, a graphics abstraction API Places * Azure, Alberta, a locality in Canada * Azure, Montana, a census-designated place in the United States * Azure Window, a former natural arch in Malta Other uses * Azure Ryder (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azure (color)
Azure ( , ) is the color between cyan and blue on the spectrum of visible light. It is often described as the color of the sky on a clear day. On the RGB color wheel, "azure" ( hexadecimal #0080FF) is defined as the color at 210 degrees, i.e., the hue halfway between blue and cyan. In the RGB color model, used to create all the colors on a television or computer screen, azure is created by adding a 50% of green light to a 100% of blue light. In the X11 color system, which became a model for early web colors, azure is depicted as a pale cyan or white cyan. Etymology and history The color azure ultimately takes its name from the intense blue mineral lapis lazuli. ' is the Latin word for "stone" and ' is the genitive form of the Medieval Latin ', which is taken from the Arabic ''lāzaward'', itself from the Persian ''lāžaward'', which is the name of the stone in Persian and also of a place where lapis lazuli was mined. The name of the stone came to be associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
