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Summary
blue is a primary color[1]. blue draws 14,174 Wikipedia views per month (primary color category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: HTML4 named color[3], spectral color[4], web color[5]
- Follows: green[6]
- Followed by: indigo[7]
- Subclass of: grue[8], cyan[9]
- Part of: seven prismatic colors[10], RGB color space[11], color[12]
- Commons category: Blue[13]
- SRGB color hex triplet: 0000FF[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Blue[15]
- Commons gallery: Blue[16]
- OpenStreetMap tag: colour=blue[17]
- Described by source: Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[18], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20]
- Equivalent class: http://www.hozo.jp/owl/YAMATO20210808.miz.owl#blue[21]
- Different from: Ble[22]
- Frequency: 666,000,000,000,000[23]
- Wavelength: 477.5[24]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q25930042[25], blue[26]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27]
- CSS color keyword: blue[28]
- Social media followers: 12,454[29], 13,099[30]
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Outcome and Impact
Things named for blue include Blue Ivy Carter[31], a singer[32], b. 2012[33], of United States[34]; blue-collar worker[35]; azurite[36], a mineral species[37]; lazurite[38], a mineral species[39]; Negro y Azul[40], a television series episode[41], directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá[42]; Blausee[43], a lake[44], in Switzerland[45]; R-29RMU Sineva[46], a missile model[47]; and Blue Line[48], a rapid transit line[49], in Canada[50].
Why It Matters
blue has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] blue is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]
Entities named for blue include Blue Ivy Carter[31], a singer[32], b. 2012[33], of United States[34]; blue-collar worker[35]; azurite[36], a mineral species[37]; lazurite[38], a mineral species[39]; Negro y Azul[40], a television series episode[41], directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá[42]; and Blausee[43], a lake[44], in Switzerland[45].