What is cerulean?
Q: What is cerulean?
A: Cerulean is a range of colours that includes teal-blue, sky-blue, bright blue, or azure to deep cyan.
Q: Where does the word cerulean come from?
A: The word cerulean comes from the Latin word caeruleum, which means "sky" or "heavens."
Q: What was the original meaning of caeruleus in classical times?
A: In classical times, caeruleus was used to describe blue pigments, particularly mixtures of copper and cobaltous oxides, called genuine cerulean.
Q: Why were early attempts at creating sky blue colours often unsatisfactory?
A: Early attempts to create sky blue colours were often less than satisfactory due to greenish hues and lack of permanence.
Q: When did people start using the artificial pigment cerulean blue?
A: When the artificial pigment cerulean blue was invented people started using this instead.
Q: When was the first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English?
A: The first recorded use of cerulean as a color name in English was in 1590.
Q: How did the term cerulean come to be associated with shades of blue?
A: The term cerulean came to be associated with shades of blue because caeruleum, the Latin word from which it originates, was used in classical times to describe blue pigments.
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