Livid is a medium bluish- gray

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. This color name comes from the

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color term ''lividus'', meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color'; it is also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". The first recorded use of ''livid'' as a color name in English was in 1622. There is a range of colors called ''livid'' colors that combine the colors blue and gray. Some of these colors are shown below. Livid (blue-gray) is the opposite concept from

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. Brown colors are mainly ''dark orange'' and ''dark red'' colors—warm colors on the warm color side of the

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, while blue-gray (livid) colors are mainly ''dark

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'' and ''dark azure'' colors—colors on the opposite side of the color wheel—cool colors on the cool color side of the color wheel. Alternate names are blue-gray (American English) or blue-grey (British English), which was a name introduced by

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for a crayon color used from 1958 to 1990. Thus, the normalized color coordinates for livid and blue-gray are identical.

Variations of blue-gray

The colors below are arranged according to value (brightness, the V code in HSV), lightest at the top and darkest towards the bottom.

Lavender gray

The historical name for this color is lavender gray. It is listed in ''A Dictionary of Color'' as one of the three major variations of lavender in 1930 along with ''lavender blue'' (shown below) and loral''lavender'' (also shown below). (This book also designates a fourth shade of lavender, called ''old lavender'', also shown below). This color is similar to Prismacolor colored pencil PC 1026, ''Greyed Lavender''.

Iceberg

The color iceberg is displayed at right. The first recorded use of ''iceberg'' as a color name in English was in 1921. Glacial iceberg in Argentina

Slate blue

Displayed at right is the web color slate blue. The first recorded use of ''slate blue'' as a color name in English was in 1796.

Blue bell

Blue bell is a shade of blue-gray. It is also a Crayola color. It represents the bluebell flower. The first recorded use of ''bluebell'' as a color name in English was in 1920. Bluebells - geograph

Glaucous

Glaucous is a shade of blue-gray found on the surfaces of some plants and animals. The first recorded use of ''glaucous'' as a color name in English was in the year 1671.

Steel blue

Steel blue is a color that resembles blue steel. The first recorded use of ''steel blue'' as a color name in English was in 1817.

Cadet grey

Cadet grey, shown at right, and ''cadet blue'', are shades of color used in military uniforms. The first recorded use of ''cadet grey'' as a color name in English was in 1912. Before 1912, the word ''cadet grey'' was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform.

Cool gray

Cool gray is a medium light color gray mixed with the color

. Another name for this color is gray-blue. This color is a dull shade of blue-gray. This color is identical with color sample #203 (identified as "gray blue") at the following website: —The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names (1955), a website for stamp collectors to evaluate the colors of their stamps.

Air Force blue

Air force blue is a grayish shade of blue or azure used by the RAF. There are other tones of ''air force blue'', such as the darker one used by the

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Shadow blue

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in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty box of metallic colors. Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

Dark blue-gray

The color dark blue-gray is displayed at right.

Roman silver

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; however, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.

Rhythm

Displayed at right is the color rhythm. ''Rhythm'' is one of the colors on th
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Payne's gray

Payne's gray is a dark blue-gray color used in painting. The first recorded use of ''Payne's grey'' as a color name in English was in 1835.

Blue-gray in nature

Insects * '' Calliphora livida'' Arachnids * '' Haplopelma lividum'' Birds * Blue-grey gnatcatcher * Blue-grey tanager Mammals * Blue-gray mouse

Blue-gray in culture

Animal husbandry * Blue Grey is a type of beef cattle popular in Scotland and the north of England. Medicine/sociology * Upper-class families who used silver eating utensils every day gradually ingested small pieces of silver into their bodies and eventually developed a mild form of a condition called argyria, in which the skin takes on a blue-gray color; thus, they became known as '' bluebloods''.Alexander, Wesley J. ''History of the Medical Use of Silver'' Sports * The Blue–Gray Football Classic was an annual American

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. It pitted players from the former Confederacy against players from the northern and western states of the United States. Transportation planning * In the Muni Metro,

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system, the K Ingleside line (which goes to the Ingleside neighborhood), is represented by the color blue-gray.

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