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# Azure

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This box shows the colour United Nations azure.

lapis lazuli with its azure colour

  This article is about the colour and the heraldic tincture. For other meanings, see azure (disambiguation).

Azure is a shade of blue. It looks like the colour of the sky on a bright, clear day. It is a pure chroma on the colour wheel between blue and cyan. The complementary colour of azure is orange.

Azure is one of the national colours of Italy on its Coat of Arms. Nations which use shades of Azure in their flags include Argentina, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Namibia, Palau, San Marino, Somalia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

The flag of the United Nations is a shade of azure called "United Nations Azure" or "United Nations Blue". It is also the colour of the helmets worn by the United Nations peacekeeping forces.

In Poetry, azure is often used to represent or refer to the sky or Heaven. Azure is often used in France to describe the Mediterranean Sea.

## [edit] Where the name comes from

The word azure comes from the Persian لاژورد lazhward. Lazhward was the name of a place. This place was famous for a kind of deep blue stone. Now we call this stone "lapis lazuli". This means "stone of Lazhward".

The word came to Old French by the twelfth century. The French used this word to talk about the colours of coats of arms. From the French it the word came to the English. The first recorded use of azure as a colour name in English was in 1374. [1]

## [edit] Heraldry

In heraldry, the word azure simply means "blue". Azure is said to represent Jupiter and sapphires.

It belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation.

In addition to the standard blue tincture called azure, there is a lighter blue sometimes found that is called bleu celeste or "sky blue". Neither azure nor bleu celeste is precisely defined as a particular shade of blue, but azure is consistently depicted in a much darker shade.

## [edit] Shades of Azure Colour Comparison Chart

- Azure Mist (web colour "Azure") (Hex: #F0FFFF) (RGB: 240, 255, 255)
- Baby Blue (Hex: #E0FFFF) (RGB: 111, 255, 255)
- Light Cornflower Blue (Crayola Cornflower) (Hex: #93CCEA) (RGB: 147, 204, 234)
- Light Sky Blue (web colour) (Hex: #87CEFA) (RGB: 135, 296, 250)
- Sky Blue (web colour) (Hex: #87CEEB) (RGB: 135, 206, 235)
- Medium Sky Blue (Crayola Sky Blue) (Hex: #76D7EA) (RGB: 118, 215, 234)
- Deep Sky Blue (web colour) (Turquoise Blue) (Hex: #00BFFF) (RGB: 0, 191, 255)
- Ukrainian Azure (Colour of Ukrainian Flag) (Hex: #42ADDE) (RGB: 66, 173, 222)
- United Nations Azure (Hex: #5B92E5) (RGB: 91, 146, 229)
- Cornflower Blue (web colour) (Hex: #6495ED) (RGB: 100, 149, 237)
- Dodger Blue (web colour) (Hex: #1E90FF) (RGB: 30, 144, 255)
- Azure (Hex: #007FFF) (RGB: 0, 127, 255)
- Deep Azure (Crayola Blue) (Hex: #0066FF) (RGB: 0, 102, 255)
- Medium Navy Blue (Crayola Navy Blue) (Hex: #0066CC) (RGB: 0, 102, 204)
- Denim (Same as Crayola Denim) (Hex: #1560BD) (RGB: 21, 96, 189)
- Swedish Azure (Colour of Swedish flag) (Hex: #005B99) (RGB: 0, 91, 153)
- Dark Azure (Pantone Blue #286) (Hex: #0038A8) (RGB: 0, 56, 186)

- Colours – List of colours

  Cyan | Magenta | Black | Grey | Silver | White

  Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | Indigo | Violet

  Gold | Olive | Purple | Brown | Pink

  ## [edit] References

  1. ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 190

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