What is the difference between marine blue and navy blue

Blue can be found in several minerals and first pigments came from some of them. Lapis Azuli is probably most famous of them. Its beauty and rarity is one of the main reasons why blue was in so many places considered as a special color, reserved for nobility and members of highest social classes.

Here we have a list of blues named after precious or semiprecious stones. Official history of blue color started with Lapis Lazuli! Lapis Lazuli, already magnificent with its deep blue color, often occurs in nature mixed with pyrite, known by its goldish glare, as we can see in the photo below.

On the right is presented made pigment, the base of most expensive color for Renaissance painters. Other four stones in the series all occur in different colors, but here are represented only in blue variations. While we already mentioned pigments, we can present several classic blue pigments with appropriate hexadecimal codes:.

All this started with Lapis Lazuli! Sometimes green dominates, what can be seen below at color scales and corresponding names. Believe it or not, we managed to compile a list of 15 turquoise colors altogether! A0D6B4 Green Turquoise. To round up the set we also included Green Turquoise, which already belongs to the family of green colors, but the situation with turquoise was always on the fence — blueish green or greenish blue.

Some of these HTML codes are also known under different names. Blue is one of so called cool colors. It should be no surprise to find it in various connections with different metals and other inorganic substances.

Steel obviously inspired whole family of blue colors. Please, beware — Blue Steel is not the same as Steel Blue! Thanks to its light fastness, opacity, spreading capacity, stability resistance to acids and alkalies and brilliant hue it is widely used in dyes and paints. There are even more Slate colors, some of them looking very blueish too, but they officially belong to the group of grey colors.

Shall we move to living nature instead? First blue pigments were made out of minerals, but real mass production started only after herb extraction was perfected. Many different flowers were used and this for instance resulted in whole family of cornflower blues:.

The most famous and stable vegetable dye is of course Indigo, with one of variations already mentioned above at navy blue colors. Here we have five more:. For instance, you can check this article with periwinkle color chart.

Here we have five more blue flowers:. While blue is by no means among most prevalent colors in animal world, we can still find numerous examples of blue colors named after animals. Shall we start in water? In animal world the color often serves as camouflage and colors of fish and sea mammals are not particularly attractive.

Jellyfish, on the other hand uses its color as kind of warning. We also already know blue is popular in the air and animal world is no exception:. Some animals live in water and in the air almost equivalently. A small freshwater duck with typical blueish greenish stripe on the wings is fine example. Yes, teal is another name for that kind of duck, and yes again, we have full set of teal colors! How about people? Blue is the most popular color in the world among men and women.

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However, I'm still a bit confused about the difference between Navy and Marine. Are they the same color? Navy blue got its name from the dark blue contrasted with white worn by sailors in the Royal Navy since and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world.

English-Ireland top end. Navy blue, dark blue - the exact colour is quite subjective within a broad range. Marine blue would be aqua blue - sea blue - for me. DaleC: Fascinating - really fascinating.

There are, I think, at least two perspectives on this. I'm sure that if you asked me to define the bluest blue I would pick something like the Wiki colour. But that is quite a specific situation. If I was told that Bill was wearing a blue suit, I certainly wouldn't expect it to be that colour - I would expect it to be much darker. If I was told that he had blue eyes, I would expect a completely different colour - much paler. If I was told that was wearing a blue tie, it could be anything from suit blue to eye blue, average - Wiki blue [Irisheyes' violet is probably the true violet of the Irish Violet - no messing about.

It might be one of the shades of purple, but for sure it is a unique colour. DaleC said:. Dear Dalec, When I made the comments about dark blue and navy blue, I was referring to usage and not to the precise nature of the two colours. In Britain, people tend to use the two colours without distinction. As far as comparing the colours on the web sites that you suggest, don't you think that the colours that people are seeing will depend on the quality and the adjustment of the computer monitor that they are using?

Indeed whether they are seeing 16 bit colour or one of the other colour standard would surely be relevant. I think you run the risk of misleading non-native speakers of English when you say that "dark blue" is not a basic colour term in English. What you say is certainly true in the context of how you define the term "basic colour". I would point out that the OED does recognise "dark blue" as a colour term in English.

Anyway, as the French say, " Les gouts et les couleurs GenJen54 said:. To me, violet is a shade of purple. As "a" color term. But to claim that "dark blue" is a basic color term begs the question of what "blue" is.

As for the dictionary comment: any dictionary recognizes scarlet and crimson, and these are just varieties of a basic color, red. Given that I brought up the issue, yes, I do. I did report that given my monitor of the moment, it was depending on content which Web page I was viewing , not the monitor. But on the other hand, if their current monitor isn't displaying colors truely, then most users will easily be able to find one that does at a library, etc.

The key point is that the Web has marvelous sites where people can see at least colors side by side. Next, since everybody knows the basic colors, they'll realize if the blue is off, yet they'll still be able to see that navy blue is quite distinct from blue. I think this thread is at risk of over-analysis and of pseudo-scientific pontification. The allocation of names to colours, as in the colour Webmaster palette, has surely no scientific basis - no more than the paintshop's descriptions.