Blue-gray (American English); blue-grey (English) is a medium bluish-gray color. Another name for this color is livid; this color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". There is a range of colors called livid colors that combine the colors blue and gray. Some of these colors are shown below. The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622. Blue-Gray was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.