Maroon (/məruːn/ mə-ROON or /məroʊn/ mə-RONE) is a dark brownish-red color, which takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.[2] The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "a brownish crimson or claret color.".[3] In the RGB model used to create colors on computer screens and televisions, maroon is created by turning down the brightness of red by about half.
Etymology [edit]
Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut");[4] from the Italian marrone, from the medieval Greek maraon.[5]
The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.[6]
Variations of maroon [edit]
Bright maroon [edit]
| Maroon (Crayola) |
 Color coordinates |
| Hex triplet |
#C32148 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) |
(195, 33, 72) |
| HSV (h, s, v) |
(345°, 75%, 38%) |
| Source |
Crayola |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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At right is displayed the bright tone of maroon that was designated as maroon in Crayola crayons beginning in 1949. It is a bright medium shade of maroon halfway between red and rose. The color halfway between red and rose is crimson, so this color is also a tone of crimson.
Rich maroon (maroon (X11)) [edit]
At right is displayed the color rich maroon, i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names, which is much brighter and more toned toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above.
See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11.
Dark red [edit]
| Dark Red |
| Color coordinates |
| Hex triplet |
#8B0000 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) |
(139, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) |
(0°, 100%, 56%) |
| Source |
X11 |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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Displayed at right is the web color dark red.
Maroon in human culture [edit]
Animated cartoons
- Maroon is a favorite epithet used by the Looney Tunes cartoon character Bugs Bunny towards another character who is particularly slow to grasp a simple concept or who is easily fooled. It is said to be a mispronunciation of the word Moron.[7]
Business
Government
- Maroon is the traditional colour associated with the historic County of Midlothian in Scotland, chosen to symbolise the blood of the "Heart of Midlothian". It is the colour of the football strip of the Edinburgh team Heart of Midlothian F.C. and the Edinburgh bus fleet operated by Lothian Buses
- Maroon was named as the official color of the state of Queensland, Australia, in November 2003. While the declared shade of maroon is RGB 115/24/44, Queenslanders display the spirit of the state by wearing all shades of maroon at sporting and cultural events.[8]
Military
- The distinctive maroon beret has been worn by airborne forces the world over since 1942.[9]
Music
Religion
School colors
Sport
- Maroons was the nickname of the now defunct Montreal Professional Hockey Club of the National Hockey League (NHL), whose team colors were maroon and white.
- Maroons is also the nickname of the University of Chicago sports teams.
- Maroons was a former nickname of the Fitzroy Football Club, who also wore the colour.
- Maroon is the colour of the West Indies cricket team.
- Maroon (RGB: R-115, G-24, B-44) has been the colour of the Australian state of Queensland's cricket, rugby league and rugby union teams since the early 20th century. The Queensland Government declared maroon the state's official colour in 2003.
- Maroon is the colour of the Sydney based rugby league club, Manly Sea Eagles and the Brisbane based rugby league club, Brisbane Broncos.
- Maroon is the traditional colour of Galway GAA and Westmeath GAA sporting teams competing in the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland.
- Maroon is the color of the Heart of Midlothian football club, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- It is also the color of the Torino F.C. football club, in Turin, Italy.
- Maroon (with two white vertical stripes) is the colour of the Amsterdam Nereus Rowing Club.
Vexillology (The study of Flags)
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, 3rd College Edition, (1988). "A dark brown red." Random House College Dictionary (1975), "a dark brownish-red."
- ^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, 1973.
- ^ "maroon". Princeton WordNet.
- ^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th Edition (1973).
- ^ Maerz and Paul. A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1930, Page 198; Color Sample of Maroon: Page 37, Plate 7, Color Sample L7
- ^ "maroon". Urban Dictionary.
- ^ "State Colour". Queensland Government.
- ^ "The Parachute Regiment "Paras"". specialoperations.com.
- ^ New York Times February 19, 2009--Tibetan Buddhist monks call for boycott of 2009 Tibetan New Year celebrations to protest casualties of 2008 Tibetan unrest (see picture of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist monks):
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