Capri or deep sky blue is a deep shade of sky blue which is the colour located halfway between cyan and azure on the colour wheel. It is a quaternary colour that has a hue of exactly 195 degrees on the RGB colour wheel. The complementary colour of capri is vermillion.
The color Capri in general is named for the color of the Mediterranean Sea around the island of Capri off Italy, the site of several villas belonging to the Roman Emperor Tiberius, including his Imperial residence in his later years, the Villa Jovis. Specifically, the color Capri is named after the color of the Blue Grotto on the island of Capri,Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 152 Discussion of the color Capri as it appears on a bright sunny day.
The first use of Capri as a color name in English was in 1920.Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191 The normalized color coordinates for Capri are identical to deep sky blue, which was formalized as a color in the X11 color names over 1985–1989.
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