Blue: 31 facts about the color of 2020!

Blue is a beautiful color with many shades, that can be found in nature.

Following this year’s color, living coral, 2020 has its own color and this is the color of blue. So let’s find out more about it!

1. Blue is one of the three primary colors of pigments in painting and traditional color theory.
2. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light.
3. Most shades of blue contain a slight mixture of other colors.
4. Lapis Lazuli is one of the rarest kinds of blue mineral.
5. In the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance it was so rare, that it was more valuable than gold.
6. The classic clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering.
7. Blue eyes are explained due to the Tyndall scattering effect.
8. Blue has been used in the U.N. and the E.U. flags because it represents harmony.
9. Surveys in the US and Europe show that blue is the color most commonly associated with harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and sometimes with sadness.
10. The same surveys showed that blue is commonly considered more masculine than other colors such as black.
11. Blue is used by many offices because it encourages creativity.
12. The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe.
13. These words are linked with the Old French word bleu.
14. Blues with a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength gradually look more violet.
15. The ones with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear greener.
16. Pure blue has a wavelength of 470 nanometres.
17. Isaac Newton included blue as one of the seven colors in his first description of the visible spectrum.
18. Blue is one of the seven colors of the rainbow.
19. Blue is the least used color when we talk about food.
20. Blueberries are the favorite of blue foods.
21. In ancient Rome, blue was worn by the public servants.
22. This was kinda the beginning of the idea for today’s police uniforms.
23. A survey has shown blue to be the best-selling color in women’s sweaters.
24. This is happening because women think that men like it.
25. Its Biblical meaning is grace.
26. In China, though it is normally linked with pain.
27. Blue attracts mosquitos twice as much as any other color.
28. Sick children prefer to be taken care of by people wearing blue
29. Blue birds can’t see blue.
30. And the only birds which can see the color blue are the owls!
31. Pantone announced classic blue as the color of the year.