Horizon blue

Horizon blue is a colour name which is well remembered because it was used for the blue-grey uniforms of French metropolitan troops from 1915 through 1921.

Horizon blue
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#7CA2B8
sRGBB (r, g, b)(124, 162, 184)
HSV (h, s, v)(202°, 33%, 72%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(65, 30, 229°)
SourceHorizon blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

This name for a shade of blue which refers to the indefinable colour which separates the sky from the earth, had been previously used in the world of fashion, and has been since then. It had also served as an emblem of political groups prevailing upon the army of the Great War.

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