Forty Shades Of Blue Today

– Hard, precious, deep. The September birthstone. Loyalty, wisdom, and a certain noble sadness.

– The blue city of India. Brahmin houses painted indigo to keep cool and keep gods close. forty shades of blue

– Discovered by accident in Berlin, 1706. The first modern synthetic pigment. It gave us Hokusai’s Great Wave — and Van Gogh’s starry nights. – Hard, precious, deep

There are not forty shades of blue. There are forty thousand. But we only have names for the ones that matter. deep. The September birthstone. Loyalty