Blue-grey is a medium bluish-gray color. Another name for this color is livid; this color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". There is a range of colors called livid colors that combine the colors blue and gray. Some of these colors are shown below. Livid is the opposite concept from brown. Brown colors are mainly dark orange and dark red colors—warm colors on the warm color side of the color wheel, while blue-gray colors are mainly dark blue and dark azure colors—colors on the opposite side of the color wheel—cool colors on the cool color side of the color wheel. The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622. Blue-gray was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.
Variations of blue-gray
The colors below are arranged according to value , lightest at the top and darkest towards the bottom.
Iceberg
The color iceberg is displayed at right. Although icebergs are white, from a distance they can often appear blue when the colors of the sky and the ocean are reflected off of them. The first recorded use of iceberg as a color name in English was in 1921.
Slate blue
Displayed at right is the web colorslate 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.
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 is a medium light color gray mixed with the color blue. 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 at the following website: —The ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names, a website for stamp collectors to evaluate the colors of their stamps.
The color shadow blue is displayed at right. Shadow blue is a color formulated by Crayola 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
At right is displayed the color Roman silver. Roman silver is one of the colors on the , a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. This color is supposed to be a metallic color; 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 the , a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "rhythm" was formulated in 2004.
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.
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 becoming known as bluebloods.
