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A growing collection of what things are worth. New deep-dives every Monday.
Wisteria
A soft blue-purple inspired by hanging wisteria flower clusters
Grape
A medium dark purple inspired by the fruit
Tyrian Purple
An ancient and extremely expensive dye extracted from sea snails, reserved for royalty
Lilac
A pale violet with a pinkish tinge, named after the flowering shrub
Lavender
A soft, muted purple inspired by the fragrant flower
Violet
The color at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum
Egyptian Blue
The first synthetic pigment in human history, created around 2200 BC
Ultramarine
A deep vivid blue historically made from lapis lazuli, once more valuable than gold
Prussian Blue
The first modern synthetic pigment, accidentally discovered in Berlin in 1706
Azure
A bright blue inspired by the cloudless sky, from the Arabic word for lapis lazuli
Cyan
A bright blue-green that is one of the primary colors in the CMYK color model
Denim
A medium blue inspired by the iconic fabric of blue jeans
Ice Blue
An extremely pale blue with a frosty, crystalline quality
Midnight Blue
A very dark blue almost indistinguishable from black, evoking the night sky
Periwinkle
A soft blue-violet named after the periwinkle flower
Steel Blue
A cool blue with gray undertones, inspired by blue-tinted steel
Powder Blue
A very pale, soft blue with a dusty quality
Cornflower Blue
A medium-light blue inspired by the cornflower plant
Indigo
A deep blue-violet, one of Newton's seven colors of the rainbow
Cerulean
A vivid sky blue that Pantone named Color of the Millennium in 1999