Amazing Facts About the Color Blue: Also Azulejos de Portugal by Midjourney

Bluebirds can’t see the color blue.

Regia Marinho
4 min readAug 10, 2023
Azulejos de Portugal. AI ART 2023 created by Midjourney + the author.

What is unique about blue?

What is the association? Blue represents the sky and the sea and is associated with open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, inspiration, and sensitivity.

Blue is one of the three primary colors in the RYB color model (traditional color theory), as well as in the RGB color model. It is between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light.

Blue also represents depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity, wisdom, confidence, stability, faith, and intelligence.

Iris Apfel. An old lady dressed in blue by Midjourney.

Iris Apfel. An Old Lady. AI ART 2023 by Midjourney + the author.

Worldwide, blue is the most common favorite color.

Studies conducted by various global marketing firms show that blue is the most common favorite color worldwide, followed by purple.

  1. Blue is the favorite color of 29% of people worldwide.
  2. Blue is a primary color.
  3. The word “blue” comes from the Old French word “bleu”

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Regia Marinho

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