The color you see below is no ordinary hue.

It's one of the world's newest -- and perhaps most vivid -- shades of blue. It also happens to be the result of a brilliant mistake.

A team of chemists discovered YInMn blue during a chemistry experiment at Oregon State University in 2009. "It was serendipity, actually, " said Mas Subramanian, the OSU chemist who led the experiment, in a press release. "A happy, accidental discovery."

Now scientists have perfected the pigment and it's going on sale as an option in commercial coatings, plastics and household paint this year.