About Cerulean
Cerulean, #007ba7, is sky blue with a career — from Latin caeruleus (heaven-blue), it names the mid-blue between azure’s brightness and teal’s green lean. One monologue in The Devil Wears Prada made it fashion’s most famous color lecture.
History
Cerulean pigment (cobalt stannate) arrived in the 1860s and gave landscape painters a stable sky; Crayola adopted it in 1990, and Pantone crowned Cerulean the first-ever Color of the Year (2000) as “the color of the millennium’s sky.”
Psychology
Cerulean is optimism with altitude — calmer than cyan, friendlier than navy. Pantone’s pick pitched it explicitly as anxiety’s antidote for a new century.
In design
Cerulean works as a confident brand mid-blue: #007ba7 passes AA for normal text on white (4.7:1). It pairs with sand, coral and white for coastal palettes, charcoal for corporate calm. Weather, travel and health tech live here.
In culture
Miranda Priestly’s cerulean-sweater speech taught the internet how trickle-down fashion works — and made this the only hue with a famous film monologue about supply chains.