Yale Blue
Yale Blue is the dark azure color used in association with Yale University.
Yale Blue | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #00356B |
HSV (h, s, v) | (210°, 100%, 42%) |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 53, 107) |
Source | Identity Guidelines |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep blue |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
History
Since the 1850s, Yale Crew has rowed in blue uniforms,[2] and in 1894, blue was officially adopted as Yale's color, after half a century of the university being associated with green.[3] In 2005, University Printer John Gambell was asked to standardize the color.[2] He had characterized its spirit as "a strong, relatively dark blue, neither purple nor green, though it can be somewhat gray. It should be a color you would call blue."[3] A vault in the university secretary's office holds two scraps of silk, apocryphally from a bolt of cloth for academic robes, preserved as the first official Yale Blue.[2]
The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289.[3][4] Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255.[2]
Other uses
The hue of Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of Indiana State University,[5] the University of Mississippi,[6] and Southern Methodist University.[7] The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is very close to Yale Blue.[8]
Yale Blue was an official color of the University of California, Berkeley, through at least 2007;[9] the university has since adopted Pantone 282 as its blue.[10]
It was Duke University's official color from the 1880s until 1961, when the school adopted Prussian blue. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[11]
See also
- Columbia blue
- Tiffany Blue
- Yale (typeface)
- List of colors
References
- https://ypps.yale.edu/blog/yale-blue-whats-color
- "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July–August 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- "Welcome". Office of the University Printer.
- "About - Indiana State University".
- "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- "Public Affairs and Media Relations Office - corporate identity - DCU identity - DCU".
- "History, Symbols, and Traditions: What are Cal's official colors?". University of California, Berkeley. May 8, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
- Colors | UC Berkeley Brand Identity. brand.berkeley.edu. Retrieved on April 6, 2014.
- "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved December 3, 2007.