Shades of blue

Varieties of the color blue may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness), or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a blue or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these colors are shown below.

Blue
 
Wavelength440–490 nm
Common connotations
masculinity, cold, sadness, confidence, harmony, water
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#0000FF
sRGBB (r, g, b)(0, 0, 255)
HSV (h, s, v)(240°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(32, 131, 266°)
SourceX11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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