Street art in Göteborg, February 2016
Hex colour reference: #1fcecb
A colourful note: this striking shade appeared in the Crayola crayon boxes in 1992, nameless, as part of the public naming competition. The winner with the cute name of robin’s egg blue was Christopher Straub, aged 8, from Bristol, Vermont, and the name took up permanent residence from 1993.
Crayola crayons are not the first occurrence of this as a colour name, though. Its first recorded use as a colour term in English was in 1873! It resembles the shade of eggs laid by the American robin (which has a red breast but is not related to the European robin). The colour is also referred to as eggshell blue.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 27 March 2016
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Travel with Intent 
What a ripper of a concept behind this series. I love it.
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Quite powerful looking and intense. Nice colors.
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I like this mural and I like also this powerful colour.
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Yes, it’s a bright, strong colour and it’s a good contrast to the rusty metal
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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the girl’s face looks a bit like Faith47’s work…great blue
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I couldn’t find any info on who did this piece. It could be Christofer Sagie who did other work in this area, but I can find no mention of it on his website.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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Eggshell blue sounds a bit shorter and practical…..
Love this colour used In a town street!
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It certainly does.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Travel with Intent wrote:
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