Time to switch to more artistic waters?This is only a start – four popular acrylic colors in comparison with one of the most interesting blue shades in the history. Lapis Azuli is probably most famous of them. We all know the weather is very changeable, and we can’t expect it will be always sunny. Spanish Translation of “blue” | The official Collins English-Spanish Dictionary online. Over 100,000 Spanish translations of English words and phrases. Only few of them are presented in next series:Apart from these five tones of sky blue, we have five more with almost the same names, differing only by numbers or conventions.But that’s not the end! Other four stones in the series all occur in different colors, but here are represented only in blue variations.Let’s continue with another semi-precious stone, this time, known in several of blueish tones.Believe it or not, we managed to compile a list of 15 turquoise colors altogether!#AFEEEE Light Turquoise aka Pale Blue aka Pale TurquoiseDid you know turquoise color got its name after Turkey (French term ‘pierre tuquoise’ translates as ‘Turkish stone’)? Often, however, different speakers will disagree.Compound colors are those that are preceded by descriptors like "light" and "dark," such as light blue and dark blue. It’s known by it’s chemistry names and abbreviations Copper Tetrabenzoporphyrazine, C.I. Its relative cadet blue is softer and even more appropriate for young people or less ceremonial occasions.There are actually five more Cadet Blue colors, their names being differentiated with numbers only:And we can present at least five examples officially belonging to the family of navy blue colors as well!There are very pragmatic reasons for so many different tints of blue (or other colors). It’s called Ultramarine. There are hundreds of blue shades and we have many examples of a certain color name assigned to different HEX codes. Spanish Color by Numbers: The Colors (English) Los Colores (Spanish) Go to a Spanish/English color matching quiz printout Go to the answers: black negro: blue azul: brown marrón: gold dorado: gray gris: green verde: multicolored multicolor: orange anaranjado (naranja) pink color (de) rosa, rosado: purple morado: red rojo: silver plateado: Lapis azuli is of course precious stone and we’ll come to that too! Nuestros pantalones más nuevos son los azules. Here we have five more:Next set is occupied by two flowers: periwinkle and lavender.Both colors are known in many variations, often verging on purple or violet, sometimes on grey.While blue is by no means among most prevalent colors in animal world, we can still find numerous examples of blue colors named after animals. We tried to verify each one of them at official web sites, but some of them are not updated, others offer contradictory data, and some info is simply not available.Duke Blue offers only one of interesting stories, where they started with Yale Blue (their headmaster came from there, but after several changes decided to take #001A57 (Prussian Blue).