Zaffre

Deep blue pigment

Zaffre

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#0014A8
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 20, 168)
HSV (h, s, v)	(233°, 100%, 66%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(21, 81, 265°)
Source	X11
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Deep blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Zaffre (also spelt Zaffer), a prescientific, or alchemical substance, is a deep blue pigment obtained by roasting cobalt ore, and is made of either an impure form of cobalt oxide^[1] or impure cobalt arsenate. During the Victorian Era, zaffre was used to prepare smalt and to stain glass blue.^[2]

The first recorded use of zaffer as a color name in English was sometime in the 1550s (exact year uncertain).^[3]

References

^ ClayArt
^ Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts , 1845, "Pottery: Black glazing p 369.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 207; Color Sample of Zaffer: Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample D11

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Navy blue	Blue (NCS)	Neon blue	Non-photo blue	Oxford Blue	Palatinate blue	Pale azure	Penn Blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue

Phthalo blue	Picton Blue	Polynesian blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Resolution Blue	RISD Blue	Royal Blue (web color)	Royal blue (traditional)	Ruddy Blue

Sapphire	Savoy blue	Silver Lake Blue	Sky blue	Space cadet	Steel blue	Tang Blue	True Blue	Tufts Blue	UCLA Blue

Ultramarine	United Nations Blue	Uranian Blue	Violet-blue	Vista Blue	Yale Blue	YInMn Blue	Zaffre