Columbia blue

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Columbia blue
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #75B2DD
sRGBB    (r, g, b) (117, 178, 221)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (47n, 20, 0, 13)
HSV       (h, s, v) (205°, 47%, 87%)
Source [1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Columbia blue, also known as Jordy blue, is a light blue tertiary color named after Columbia University. The color itself derives from the official hue of the Philolexian Society, the university's oldest student organization.[1] The typical Columbia blue is defined by Pantone Columbia Blue 3 (PANTONE 292).[2]

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Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions [edit]

Fraternities and Sororities Organizations, fraternities and sororities that use Columbia blue for their colors:

School Colors Columbia blue is used as one of the two or three color symbols for the following colleges, universities and high schools:

Sports

Music

  • The song "Reno Dakota", by the band The Magnetic Fields, makes a play on words with the color in the couplet "You know you enthrall me and yet you don't call me it's making me blue/Pantone 292."

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Cardozo, Ernest Abraham (1902). A History of the Philolexian Society of Columbia University from 1802- 1902 (in X. Conclusion). New York: Philolexian Society. pp. 149–150. Retrieved 12 December 2011. 
  2. ^ http://www.colourlovers.com/color/76B3DF/pantone_292

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