baby blue

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Baby blue
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#E0FFFF
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(224, 255, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(180°, 97%, 97%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color baby blue. The color baby blue as shown here is identical to the web color light cyan. Baby blue is known as one of the pastel colors.

The first recorded use of baby blue as a color name in English was in 1892.^[1]

Baby blue in human culture

Gender

• In Western culture, the color baby blue is often associated with baby boys (and baby pink for baby girls), particularly in clothing and linen and shoes. This is a recent tradition, however, and until the 1940s the convention was exactly the opposite: pink was considered the appropriate for boys as the more masculine and "decided" while blue was the more delicate and dainty color and therefore appropriate for girls.^[2][3]

Law Enforcement

• In the late 1960s, New Age philosopher Alan Watts, who lived in Sausalito, a suburb of San Francisco, suggested that police cars be painted baby blue and white instead of black and white. This proposal was implemented in San Francisco in the 1980s ^[4] (the police cars of the San Francisco Police Department have since been repainted the standard black and white). Watts also suggested that the police should wear baby blue uniforms (this was never implemented by the SFPD, apparently because the police wouldn't stand for it, even though other American locations do use light blue police uniforms). The idea behind using baby blue instead of black or dark blue to symbolize the police was, Watts suggested, that if the police were dressed in baby blue, they would be less likely to commit acts of police brutality.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Baby pink
• List of colors

References