Color Names

Spartan Blue

Faded blue, as austere as a Spartan's cloak, worn from duty.

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Spartan Blue is a cool grey, close to blue.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Spartan Blue

Sparta

Sparta was a prominent ancient Greek polis in Laconia. In classical antiquity, the state was known as Lacedaemon, while Sparta referred to its capital, a group of villages in the valley of the Evrotas River in Laconia, in southeastern Peloponnese. During the 7th century BC, it rose to become the most prominent land military power in the Greek world, a status it retained until its defeat at Leuctra in 371 BC.

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Blue

Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RGB (additive) colour model, as well as in the RYB colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called the Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective.

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spartan

Adjective

  1. Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
  2. Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.
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blue

Adjective

  1. Of a blue hue.
  2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.

Noun

  1. The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
  2. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
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