Livid is a medium
bluish-
gray
Grey (more common in British English) or gray (more common in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed o ...
color
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. This color name comes from the
Latin
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color term ''lividus'' meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'".
[ The first recorded use of ''livid'' as a color name in English was in 1622.
There is a range of colors called ''livid'' colors that combine the colors blue and gray. Some of these colors are shown below.
Livid (blue-gray) is the opposite concept from ]brown
Brown is a color. It can be considered a composite color, but it is mainly a darker shade of orange. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is usually made by combining the colors orange and black. In the RGB color model used ...
. Brown colors are mainly ''dark orange
Orange most often refers to:
*Orange (fruit), the fruit of the tree species '' Citrus'' × ''sinensis''
** Orange blossom, its fragrant flower
*Orange (colour), from the color of an orange, occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum
* ...
'' and ''dark red
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondar ...
'' colors—warm colors on the warm color side of the color wheel
A color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc.
Some sources use the terms ''color wheel'' & ' ...
, while blue-gray (livid) colors are mainly ''dark blue
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. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when obs ...
'' and ''dark azure'' colors—colors on the opposite side of the color wheel—cool colors on the cool color side of the color wheel.
Alternate names are blue-gray (American English) or blue-grey (British English), which was a name introduced by Crayola
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for a crayon color used from 1958 to 1990. Thus, the normalized color coordinates for livid and blue-gray are identical.
Variations of blue-gray
The colors below are arranged according to value (brightness) (the v code in hsv), lightest at the top and darkest towards the bottom.
Iceberg
The color iceberg is displayed at right.
The first recorded use of ''iceberg'' as a color name in English was in 1921.
Slate blue
Displayed at right is the web color
Web colors are colors used in Web design, displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Colors may be specified as an RGB color model, RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a ''hex triple ...
slate blue.
The first recorded use of ''slate blue'' as a color name in English was in 1796.
Blue bell
Blue bell is a shade of blue-gray. It is also a Crayola color. It represents the bluebell flower.
The first recorded use of ''bluebell'' as a color name in English was in 1920.
Glaucous
Glaucous is a shade of blue-gray found on the surfaces of some plants and animals.
The first recorded use of ''glaucous'' as a color name in English was in the year 1671.
Steel blue
Steel blue is a color that resembles blue steel.
The first recorded use of ''steel blue'' as a color name in English was in 1817.
Cadet grey
Cadet grey, shown at right, and ''cadet blue'', are shades of color used in military uniforms.
The first recorded use of ''cadet grey'' as a color name in English was in 1912. Before 1912, the word ''cadet grey'' was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform.
Cool gray
Cool gray is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue
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. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when obs ...
.
Another name for this color is gray-blue.
This color is a dull shade of blue-gray.
This color is identical with color sample #203 (identified as "gray blue") at the following website
https://web.archive.org/web/20170810183646/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-g.htm
€”The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names (1955), a website for stamp collectors to evaluate the colors of their stamps.
Air Force blue
Air force blue is a grayish shade of blue or azure used by the RAF
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.
There are other tones of ''air force blue'', such as the darker one used by the United States Air Force
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.
Shadow blue
The color shadow blue is displayed at right. ''Shadow blue'' is a color formulated by Crayola
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in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors.
Although this is supposed to be a metallic
Metallic may be a reference to:
*Metal
* Metalloid, metal-like substance
*Metallic bonding, type of chemical bonding
* Metallicity, in astronomy the proportion of elements other than helium and hydrogen in an object
*Metallic color, a color that ...
color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.
Dark blue-gray
The color dark blue-gray is displayed at right.
Roman silver
At right is displayed the color Roman silver.
''Roman silver'' is one of the colors on th
Resene Color List
a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand.
This color is supposed to be a metallic color
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; however, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
Rhythm
Displayed at right is the color rhythm.
''Rhythm'' is one of the colors on th
Resene Color List
a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "rhythm" was formulated in 2004.
Payne's gray
Payne's gray is a dark blue-gray color used in painting.
The first recorded use of ''Payne’s grey'' as a color name in English was in 1835.
Blue-gray in nature
;Insects
* ''Calliphora livida
''Calliphora livida'' is a member of the family Calliphoridae, the blow flies. This large family includes the genus ''Calliphora'', the "blue bottle flies". This genus is important in the field of forensic entomology because of its value in post- ...
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;Arachnids
* ''Haplopelma lividum
The cobalt blue tarantula or ''Cyriopagopus lividus'' is a species of tarantula which is in the family Theraphosidae which is native to Myanmar and over the border into Thailand. It was originally described as ''Haplopelma lividum''.
Descriptio ...
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;Birds
* Blue-grey gnatcatcher
The blue-gray gnatcatcher or blue-grey gnatcatcher (''Polioptila caerulea'') is a very small songbird native to North America. Description
It is in length, 6.3 in (16 cm) in wingspan, and weighing only . Adult males are blue-gray on the upperpa ...
* Blue-grey tanager
The blue-gray tanager (''Thraupis episcopus'') is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. I ...
;Mammals
* Blue-gray mouse
The blue-gray mouse (''Pseudomys glaucus'') is an Australian rodent species that is only known by a few specimens found in Eastern Australia, and since presumed to have become extinct.
Taxonomy
The species was described by Oldfield Thomas in ...
Blue-gray in culture
;Animal husbandry
* Blue Grey is a type of beef cattle popular in Scotland and the north of England.
;Medicine/sociology
* Upper-class families who used silver eating utensils every day gradually ingested small pieces of silver into their bodies and eventually developed a mild form of a condition called argyria
Argyria or argyrosis is a condition caused by excessive exposure to chemical compounds of the element silver, or to silver dust. The most dramatic symptom of argyria is that the skin turns blue or blue-grey. It may take the form of ''generalize ...
, in which the skin takes on a blue-gray color, thus becoming known as '' bluebloods''.[Alexander, Wesley J. ''History of the Medical Use of Silver'']
;Sports
* The Blue–Gray Football Classic
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was an annual American college football
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Unlike most ...
all-star game held in Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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, seat = Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery
, LargestCity = Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville
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usually on Christmas Day
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. It was begun in 1939 and held annually through 2001 at the Cramton Bowl
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in Montgomery, Alabama
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. It pitted players from the former Confederacy against players from the northern and western states of the United States.
;Transportation planning
* In the Muni Metro
Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States. Operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Muni Metro served an average of 157 ...
, San Francisco
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's light rail system, the K Ingleside
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line, which goes to the Ingleside neighborhood, is represented by the color blue-gray.
See also
* RAL 5008 Grey blue
* RAL 7031 Blue grey
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RAL Classic Yellow and beige
Orange
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* List of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (compact)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
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References
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