Sapphire is a saturated

shade Shade, Shades or Shading may refer to: * Shade (color), a mixture of a color with black (often generalized as any variety of a color) * Shade (shadow), the blocking of sunlight * Shades or sunglasses * Shading, a process used in art and graphic ...

blue Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB color model, RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB color model, RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between Violet (color), violet and cyan on the optical spe ...

, referring to the gemstone of the same name. Sapphire gems most commonly occur in a range of blue shades, although they can come in many different colors. Other names for variations of the color sapphire are blue sapphire or sapphire blue, shown below.

Sapphire

Displayed at right is the color sapphire. The first recorded use of ''sapphire'' as a color name in English was in 1430.Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 204; Color Sample of Sapphire: Page 97 Plate 37 Color Sample L8

Variations

Sapphire blue

At right is displayed the color sapphire blue.

Medium sapphire

Medium sapphire is the color called ''sapphire'' in

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Gem Tones, a specialty set of Crayola crayons introduced in 1994.

B'dazzled blue

B'dazzled blue is a color in Crayola Metallic FX, a specialty set of Crayola crayons introduced in 2001.

Blue sapphire

Displayed as right is the color blue sapphire. The source of this color is the

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Textile Paper Extended (TPX) color list color #18-4231 "Blue Sapphire".

King blue

Displayed as right is the color king blue, a variant of sapphire with a violet tone.

Dark sapphire

Dark sapphire is a dark tone of sapphire.

In culture

Alcoholic beverage Drinks containing alcohol (drug), alcohol are typically divided into three classes—beers, wines, and Distilled beverage, spirits—with alcohol content typically between 3% and 50%. Drinks with less than 0.5% are sometimes considered Non-al ...

s * Bombay Sapphire is a popular brand of

gin Gin () is a distilled alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries and other botanical ingredients. Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe. The modern gin was modified in Flanders and the Netherlands ...

. It comes in a pale sapphire colored

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Given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...

s * Sapphire is a

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for females.

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* The color 'Pearl Sapphire Blue' is the official color of the popular

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band

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* In an episode of the

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TV show '' Sliders'', the protagonists go to an alternate universe where the

Golden Gate Bridge The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco—the northern tip of the San Francisco Peni ...

is colored sapphire and is referred to as the ''Sapphire Gate Bridge''.

References

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