Cobalt, Cyan and Cerulean are shades of which colour?
Shades of cyan Shades of cyan This article is about notable tints and shades of the color cyan, a greenish blue. Cyan is one of the subtractive primary colors- cyan, magenta, and yellow. The first recorded use of "cyan blue" ("cyan blue" was the name used for the color "cyan" in the 19th century) as a color name in English was in 1879. In color printing, the shade of cyan called process cyan or pigment cyan is one of the three primary pigment colors which, along with yellow and magenta, constitute the three subtractive primary colors of pigment. (The secondary colors of pigment
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