What colour is the artist's colour called cerulean ?
Cerulean "corruleum blue". "Pigments through the ages" shows a "Painted swatch of cerulean blue" that is representative of the actual cobalt stannate pigment. This colour swatch matches the colour shown in the colour box at right. See also painted swatch and crystals of cerulean blue at ColourLex. The primary chemical constituent of the pigment is cobalt(II) stannate. The precise hue of the pigment is dependent on a variable silicate component. The pigment is very expensive. When the pigment cerulean blue (shown in the colour box to the left) was discovered, it became a useful addition to Prussian blue, cobalt blue and
Cerulean "cobalt turquoise". Pantone, in a press release, declared the pale hue of cerulean at right, which they call "cerulean", as the "colour of the millennium". The source of this colour is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" colour list, colour #15-4020 TPX—Cerulean. This bright tone of cerulean is the colour called "cerulean" by Crayola crayons. At right is displayed the colour cerulean frost. "Cerulean frost" is one of the colours in the special set of metallic coloured Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colours of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990. Cerulean Cerulean (), also spelled caerulean, is a