Midnight blue
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Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the moonlit night sky. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of Indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sun-light or full-spectrum light, but can appear black under certain more limited spectrums sometimes found in artificial lighting (especially early 20th century incandescent). As a consequence, it is often colloquially confused with black-blue, which is a black with a blue undertone, or deep navy, which is a blue so dark it is nearly black. There are two different shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color.
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[edit] Midnight blue
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #191970 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (25, 25, 112) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (240°, 78%, 44%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color midnight blue.
This is the X11 web color midnight blue.
[edit] Midnight blue (crayola)
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| Hex triplet | #003366 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 51, 102) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (210°, 100%, 40%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color of midnight blue. Crayola crayons.
Midnight blue has been an official Crayola color since 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1949, it was called Prussian blue.
[edit] Midnight blue in culture
- US Air Force Midnight Blue is the color used on ABU (Air Battle Uniform) nametapes and rank insignia. A thread color from the manufactures American and Efird that is used by a major supplier of military nametapes is color number 51621. Madeira embroidery thread (100% Viscose) color 1244 is also a very dark midnight (almost black) blue thread.
- The Boston Red Sox have used midnight blue and red as their official team colors.
- The Buffalo Sabres have used midnight blue as an official team color ever since they discarded black & red as their team colors and returned to their blue & gold color scheme just before the start of the 2006-07 NHL season.
- The Edmonton Oilers use midnight blue as an official team color, alongside copper.
- The Dallas Mavericks have used midnight blue as one of their official team colors since the 2001-02 NBA season. Their former primary road uniforms were colored midnight blue with "DALLAS" spelled out in silver on the front. Currently, the Mavericks use midnight blue as their secondary color.
- The Golden State Warriors have used midnight blue as one of their official team colors since the 1997-98 NBA season.
- The New York Yankees have used midnight blue and white as their official team colors.
- The Toledo Rockets use midnight blue and gold as their official team colors.[1]
- The Deccan Chargers use midnight blue and silver as their official team colors.
- Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan, a type of Martial arts, uses midnight blue as an expert ranking.
- As it is a web-safe color, Midnight blue is an extremely popular color choice, showing up on various websites, including the latest version of Google's blog service, Blogger.
[edit] See also
This is also a comic-book character ~ http://www.comicvine.com/midnight-blue/29-55119/
