Columbia blue
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| Hex triplet | #75B2DD | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (117, 178, 221) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (205°, 47%, 87%) |
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Columbia blue, also known as Jordy blue, is a light blue tertiary color named after Columbia University. The color itself derives from the logo of the Philolexian Society which lent its light blue to the Columbia logo[1]. The typical Columbia blue is defined by Pantone Columbia Blue 3 (PANTONE 292).[2]
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[edit] Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions
Fraternities and Sororities Organizations, fraternities and sororities that use Columbia blue for their colors:
- Delta Phi
- Omega Tau Zeta
- Acacia
- Lambda Kappa Sigma
- Zeta Chi Zeta of Oswego State
- Philolexian Society of Columbia University
School Colors Columbia blue is used as one of the two or three color symbols for the following colleges, universities and high schools:
- Arroyo High School (California)
- Bartlesville High School (Oklahoma)
- Benjamin Elijah Mays High School (Georgia)
- Bowsher High School (Toledo, Ohio)
- Bridgeport High School (Ohio)
- Cactus High School (Arizona)
- Camden County High School (Georgia)
- Captain John L. Chapin High School (Texas)
- Cascade High School (Clayton, Indiana)
- Centennial High School (Illinois)
- Central Valley High School (Veradale, Washington)
- Centreville High School (Virginia)
- Chapin High School (South Carolina)
- Charlotte Catholic High School (North Carolina)
- China Spring High School (Texas)
- C. Leon King High School (Florida)
- Clements High School (Texas)
- Columbia University
- Comstock High School (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
- Creighton University
- Delaware State University
- Digital Harbor High School (Maryland)
- Dougherty Valley High School (California)
- Dubuque Senior High School (Iowa)
- East Buchanan High School (Iowa)
- Enrico Fermi High School (Connecticut)
- Fashion Institute of Technology (New York)
- Father Judge High School (Pennsylvania)
- First Colonial High School (Virginia)
- Franklin Roosevelt High School (Dallas, TX)
- George C. Marshall High School (Falls Church, Virginia)
- Glendale High School (Missouri)
- Goddard High School (New Mexico)
- Governor John R. Rogers High School (Washington)
- Grand Rapids Christian High School (Michigan)
- Greater Johnstown High School (Pennsylvania)
- Greeley West High School (Colorado)
- Har-Ber High School (Springdale, Arkansas)
- Heritage High School (Tennessee)
- Hillsdale High School (California)
- Hirschi High School (Wichita Falls, Texas)
- Holy Name Central Catholic High School (Worcester, MA)
- Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
- Thomas Jefferson High School (Iowa)
- Johns Hopkins University
- Kings High School (Kings Mills, Ohio)
- Lady Bird Johnson High School (San Antonio, Texas)
- Lakeridge High School (Lake Oswego, Oregon)
- Lima Central Catholic High School (Lima, Ohio)
- Lower Cape May Regional High School (Cape May, NJ)
- Loyola College Prapatory High School (Shreveport, Louisiana)
- Maconaquah High School (Indiana)
- The Mary Louis Academy (New York)
- McMinn Central High School (Englewood, Tennessee)
- Mira Loma High School (Sacramento, California)
- Montclair High School (California)
- Montpelier High School (Ohio)
- Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas)
- Moorpark College
- Moorpark College (Moorpark, California)
- Nicolet High School (Wisconsin)
- North Forsyth High School (North Carolina)
- North Pike High School (Mississippi)
- North Stafford High School (Virginia) (phased out after 2000)
- Oak Glen High School (West Virginia)
- Page County High School(Virginia)
- Palisades Charter High School (California)
- Patrick Henry High School(Virginia)
- Paul M. Dorman High School (South Carolina)
- Penn Cambria High School (Pennsylvania)
- Pinckneyville Community High School (Illinois)
- Prospect High School (Illinois)
- Putnam City West High School (Oklahoma)
- R B Stall High School (South Carolina)
- Richard Stockton College
- Roncalli High School (Wisconsin)
- Rye Neck High School (New York)
- St. Joseph's High School (South Bend, Indiana)
- School of Education and Social Services (Texas)
- Shawnee Mission East High School (Kansas)
- Skyline High School (Ann Arbor)
- Skyline High School (Pratt, Kansas)
- Willoughby South High School (Ohio)
- South Mountain High School (Phoenix, Arizona)
- Southside High School (Fort Smith, Arkansas)
- Springbrook High School (Maryland)
- Thomas More High School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Twin Falls High School (Idaho)
- Sonoma State University
- Southern University
- Spelman College
- Union Grove Independent School District of Gladewater, Texas
- University Academy (Missouri)
- University City High School
- University of Dayton
- University High School (California)
- University of San Diego
- University of Rhode Island
- Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School (Ohio)
- Walt Whitman High School (Maryland)
- Webb City High School (Missouri)
- Western Piedmont Community College (North Carolina)
- Yorktown High School (Virginia)
- Every Argentinian National Team (Soccer, Basketball, Rugby, Olympic Games...)
- The Buffalo Braves, now Los Angeles Clippers.
- The Denver Nuggets have worn Columbia blue road jerseys since the 2003–04 NBA season.
- The Kansas Jayhawks football team used Columbia blue in the early 1960s and wore Columbia blue in an October 2011 homecoming football game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders to honor their 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl champions.
- The Kansas City Royals "powder blue" uniforms that debuted in 2008 are actually Columbia blue.
- The Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball team wears their traditional Columbia blue jerseys instead of the university's official color Reflex blue.
- The Memphis Grizzlies introduced an alternate Columbia blue road jersey in 2009, which is actually "smoke blue."
- The Tampa Bay Rays selected Columbia blue as one of its three color symbols in September 2007. The color is used in the team's logos, uniforms and official merchandise.
- The Tennessee Titans (formerly the Houston Oilers from 1960–1996 and the Tennessee Oilers from 1997–98) have used Columbia blue in their color scheme throughout their entire franchise history.
- The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team wears Columbia blue accents on their uniforms.
- The Utah Jazz wore Columbia blue alternate road jerseys from 2006–2010.
- 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."
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Cardozo, Ernest Abraham (1902) (in X. Conclusion). A History of the Philolexian Society of Columbia University from 1802- 1902. New York: Philolexian Society. pp. 149–150. http://www.archive.org/details/historyofphilole00card. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
- ^ http://www.colourlovers.com/color/76B3DF/pantone_292
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