Talk:Baby blue

message: This article says that this is the color to indicate baby boys. Any corresponding color to indicate baby girls?? Georgia guy 01:20, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be pink. I guess there should be a note there explaining that. --WillDarlock 06:02, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: boys and girls

message: "Pink is for girls, Blue is for boys." -C- Feb. 25th, 1939 A 98213"
Fenner and Beane, New York 21684-21689
Zyxwv99 (talk) 23:54, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  1940 Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. &#91;B&#93; Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series 

message: The color looks *nothing like baby blue*! Do a image search for baby blue, 90% of the hits look more blue than what's on wikipedia. So whatever a book in 1930 said, it's no longer correct in today use. (Assuming the 1930s book is the reference for the used color in the article RGB (r, g, b) (224, 255, 255)). 
http://www.colourlovers.com/img/89CFF0/228/207/baby_blue.png
That's much more close to what people are actually using to mean baby blue as evidenced by thousands of images and photos. 88.115.115.16 (talk) 17:25, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: baby blue ????????????????????

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message: I have some concerns about this article. My present focus is the section "baby blue eyes".
One way to express my concern is to discuss how this article might be used by a reader. Imagine a school child being given an assignment to do some research about the color " baby blue eyes". The instructor is given the class some appropriate warnings — they should be very cautious about using Wikipedia for research, and can only use information from Wikipedia if they confirm that the information they choose to use its backed up by a source.
That pupil reads this article and feels confident identifying baby blue eyes as a unique color whose color attributes have the hex triplet:
:#A1CAF1
This seems like a plausible conclusion.
However, I have a few issues.
If you start with the embedded link in the color coordinate template to Plochere, you find it's a dead link. That's not a good start, and probably should be addressed but let's understand the scope of the issues first.
Instead of using the link and the color coordinate template, use the link at the end of the text, which does have a link to a web archive site. That page does have a reference to baby blue eyes, and the site also supports the hex triplet.
However, while it is acceptable to use a web archive link, I'm troubled by the fact that the company has a current working site Plochere Color System Home But I wasn't able to find a reference to that color or that hex triplet on the site. That might mean I just don't know how to look, but it troubles me. If we were talking about an archaic name, identified as such, I'd have absolutely no problem using a web archive link and the fact that the current site doesn't have such information may mean that the company no longer supports that color. However, the article is suggesting that it's not an archaic term and in fact, I don't think it is an archaic term. I am troubled by the fact that the reference for the color is to a company which doesn't seem to currently have any relevant information.
The next problem can be seen at that web archive page. Note that, in addition to an entry for baby blue eyes with hex code #a1caf1, there is a second entry for baby blue eyes with a different hex code #b3bce2.
Now we see the beginning of what will be a theme; there may be multiple hex codes associated with this name. While in many cases, that will be because different companies have slightly different colors we have at least one situation of a single company with two different hex codes for the same name.
As an additional complication, note that the site has a color with a different name, baby blue, but with the same hex code as one of the baby blue eyes #a1caf1. I note this article has an entry for baby blue with different hex codes.
If one pokes around on the Internet, we can find multiple sites all using baby blue eyes as a color but with a range of hex values.
For example:
* Hex Value: #A1CAF1  Company: Plochere Link
* Hex Value: #B3BCE2  Company: Plochere Link
* Hex Value: #83A2B4  Company: Sherwin williams Link
* Hex Value: #93B5CE  Company: Glidden Home Depot
* Hex Value: #75A2B9  Company: PPG Home Depot
* Hex Value: #3C81CC  Company: PRITI NYC PRITI NYC (Various values)
* Hex Value: #92B2CB  Company: Glidden Glidden (Various values)
* Hex Value: #92B2CC  Company: PPG PPG
* Hex Value: #C3DCE3  Company: NUGenesis NUGenesis
Note that many of these colors are quite similar to each other but the last entry in this list is an exception with a very different color.
Note also that in some cases there was a uniform swatch. A color picker generated a unique value any place on the swatch, but others had a variety of options and I chose a representative location to select the X value using a color picker
My tentative conclusion is that baby blue eyes is a real color but not one for which there is complete agreement on its color attributes. The paint companies seem to cluster in a narrow range but other companies aren't necessarily so close. I think this should be reflected in the article to disabuse the reader of the impression that baby blue eyes is uniquely defined in terms of its color attributes.
While that suggest a way to rewrite this article, I'm here because I'm working on List_of_colors:_A–F, and I haven't yet figured out how to populate that list with a range of values or with multiple values.--S Philbrick(Talk) 21:10, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baby blue eyes issues 

message: The color  was removed here with the summary .
There are many hits with a google search for "E7FEFF" and "bubbles", though it's reasonable to conclude that much of it is WP:CIRCULAR, as many of those sites don't seem to bother citing their sources. However, there is this XONA page (date confirmed as 2006-03-15 by archive). Bubbles was not added to  until 2008-09-19T02:32:11Z, 2.5 years later. Doucette's source was apparently Resene Paints, which has a 2001 copyright notice, but was unfortunately not archived until 2007 (still pre-dating WP, though).
I think it's reasonable to include it here. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 22:03, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Found a current listing on a Resene site, but it gives , so I'm more confused now. Trivialist (talk) 22:15, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  They may have changed their color online and/or physically as technology and even tastes have evolved. Electronic colour measurement and conversions addresses some of the tech issues. That color, "Resene Bubbles", is shown at Encycolorpedia, where it is called "Resene I Spy G95-014-202" (the G number matches Resene's as well). It's substantially less blue than the Bubbles we have, and I don't think it would reasonably be considered a "baby blue" it looks more green to me, though I have no idea if my 2018 laptop display and Windows OS is well-calibrated. I'll also note that Encycolorpedia calls #e7feff "Bubbles / Crayola Baby Blue", so hunting down the Crayola source may be useful to retain the color. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 23:16, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bubbles 

message: Baby Blue is the name of the official aerobatics team of the Danish air force. Unfortunately, so far there also seems to be no wikipedia page on this topic. Still, I would find it important to list this meaning on the disambiguation page. 2A00:20:3044:AFF0:B130:343F:8FB7:600E (talk) 22:19, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baby Blue disambiguation: aerobatics team