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:''This article is about the color. For the company, see Cerulean Studios''
'Cerulean' is a range of colors from deep blue, sky-blue, bright blue or azure color through greenish blue colors. The word cerulean is derived from the Latin word "caeruleum", which means sky or heavens. This was in turn from Latin ''caeruleus'' dark blue: resembling the blue of the sky.

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Use in artistic painting

Cerulean in culture

See also

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Use in artistic painting

In classical times, this term was used to describe blue pigments, particularly mixtures of copper and cobaltous oxides. These early attempts to create sky blue colors were often less than satisfactory due to greenish hues and lack of permanence. When the pigment cerulean blue was invented, it largely superseded all these prior pigments.

Cerulean in culture

'Film'

★ ''The Devil Wears Prada'' -- "But what you don't know is that that sweater is not just blue, it's not turquoise, it's not lapis, it's actually cerulean."

★ ''Nineteen Minutes'' by Jodi Picoult
'Graphic Design'

★ Cerulean is...

"...the color of the sky on a serene, crystal clear day,"

according to Pantone, Inc.
'Music'

★ Cerulean is the name of a Boston-based IDM band.

★ ''Cerulean'' is the album title for the September 10, 1991 music release by the band The Ocean Blue
'Television'

★ Cerulean is important in ''The X-Files'' episodes ''Pusher'' and ''Kitsunegari'' as a hypnotic catalyst a criminal uses (repeating cerulean over and over again to lull his victim).

★ In Pokemon it is a city where Misty's family lives.
'Video Games'

★ There is a city and a gym badge named Cerulean in the Pokémon Kanto region.

★ Cerulean is also the name of a city in the English translation of ''Pokémon Red'' and ''Blue''.

★ Cerulean is a name given to Azul the Cerulean in ''Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-'' for his blue hair.

★ Cerulean is a planet in the N64 game Jet Force Gemini. The level consists of blue-green sand dunes.

See also

★ Cerulean blue

★ List of colors

References