Capri (color)

Capri

Colour coordinates
Hex triplet	#00BFFF
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 191, 255)
HSV (h, s, v)	(195°, 100%, 100%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(73, 83, 234°)
Source	ColorHexa^[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Brilliant greenish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Capri or deep sky blue is a deep shade of sky blue which is between cyan and azure on the colour wheel. The colour Capri in general is named for the colour of the Mediterranean Sea around the island of Capri off Italy, the site of several villas belonging to the Roman Emperor Tiberius, including his Imperial residence in his later years, the Villa Jovis. Specifically, the colour Capri is named after the colour of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri,^[2] as it appears on a bright sunny day.

The first use of Capri as a colour name in English was in 1920.^[3] The normalized colour coordinates for Capri are identical to deep sky blue, which was formalized as a color in the X11 colour names over 1985–1989.

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^ "Deep sky blue / #00bfff hex color". ColorHexa. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 152 Discussion of the color Capri
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191

Shades of cyan

Alice blue	Aqua	Aquamarine	Azure	Azure (web)	Blue-green	Capri	Caribbean Current	Celeste	Cerulean

Cyan (RGB)	Cyprus	Dark cyan	Electric blue	Fluorescent cyan	Jungle green	Keppel	Ice blue	Light cyan	Light sea green

Mint green	Mint	Moonstone	Myrtle Green	Pacific cyan	Persian green	Pine green	Process Cyan	Robin egg blue	Sea green

Skobeloff	Sky blue (Crayola)	Spring green	Teal	Tiffany Blue	Turquoise	Verdigris	Vivid sky blue	Zomp

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

Shades of blue

Aero	Air Force blue	Air superiority blue	Alice Blue	Argentinian Blue	Azure	Azul	Baby blue	Berkeley Blue	Bice blue

Bleu de France	Blue	Blue-gray	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue	Byzantine blue	Cambridge blue	Carolina blue	Celestial Blue	Celtic Blue

Cerulean	Chefchaouen Blue	Chrysler blue	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower	Blue (Crayola)	Dark blue	Deep Sky Blue	Delft Blue

Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue	Egyptian blue	Federal blue	Glaucous	Green-blue	Electric indigo	Eclipse	French blue

Honolulu blue	Ice blue	Illini blue	Indigo	Indigo dye	International Klein Blue	Jordy Blue	Lapis Lazuli	Light blue	Light Sky Blue

Majorelle Blue	Marian blue	Maya blue	Medium blue	Medium slate blue	Midnight blue	Blue (Munsell)	Navy blue	Blue (NCS)	Neon blue

Non-photo blue	Oxford Blue	Palatinate blue	Pale azure	Penn Blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Phthalo blue	Picton Blue	Polynesian blue

Powder blue	Prussian blue	Resolution Blue	RISD Blue	Royal Blue (web color)	Royal blue (traditional)	Ruddy Blue	Sapphire	Savoy blue	Silver Lake Blue

Sky blue	Space cadet	Steel blue	Tang Blue	True Blue	Tufts Blue	UCLA Blue	Ultramarine	United Nations Blue	Uranian Blue

Violet-blue	Vista Blue	Yale Blue	YInMn Blue	Zaffre

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