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Children in blue and pink clothing. This restroom sign on an All Nippon Airways Boeing 767-300 uses pink for the female gender and blue for the male gender.. The colors pink and blue are associated with girls and boys respectively in large parts of the Western world.
perked up in blue or pink, for boy or girl, respectively, to announce that the little stranger had arrived. [71] 1924: unknown: Married life, or, The true romance by May Edginton "I must share them with the children; and this pink ribbon—pink for a girl, blue for a boy! It'll do for baby's bonnet. What lovely ribbon, silk all through!" [72 ...
The addition of a blue triangle contrasts the pink and represents heterosexuality. The two triangles overlap and form lavender, which represents the "queerness of bisexuality", referencing the Lavender Menace and 1980s and 1990s associations of lavender with queerness. [2] Page described the meaning of the pink, purple, and blue colors: [1] [6]
There is an urban legend that pink was a masculine color before the mid 20th century, [citation needed] based on evidence of conflicting traditions before about 1940. Del Giudice (2012) argues that pink-blue gender coding has been broadly consistent in the UK and the US since it appeared around 1890. [26]
Italian, Russian and Hebrew have twelve basic color terms, each distinguishing blue and light blue. A Russian will make the same red/pink and orange/brown distinctions, but will also make a further distinction between синий (sinii) and голубой (goluboi), which English speakers would call
Displayed here is the color baby pink, a light shade of pink. The first recorded use of baby pink as a color name in English was in 1928. [13] In Western culture, baby pink is used to symbolize baby girls just as baby blue is often used to symbolize baby boys (but see also the section Pink in gender in the main article on pink.)
The RGB color model, invented in the 19th century and fully developed in the 20th century, uses combinations of red, green, and blue light against a black background to make the colors seen on a computer monitor or television screen. In the RGB model, the primary colors are red, green, and blue.
For all additive color models, the absence of all primaries results in black. For practical additive color models, an equal superposition of all primaries results in neutral (gray or white). In the RGB model, an equal mixture of red and green is yellow, an equal mixture of green and blue is cyan and an equal mixture of blue and red is magenta.