Navy blue

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Navy
About these coordinatesAbout these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #000080
sRGBB (r, g, b) (0, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v) (240°, 100%, 50%)
Source HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue almost appears as black. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world.

When this color, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 1800s, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue.[2]

The first recorded use of Navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840.[3]

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[edit] Other variations of navy blue

  • Navy blue variation 1 (Hex: #0A0A85) RGB (10, 10, 133)
  • Navy blue variation 2 (Hex: #14148A) RGB (20, 20, 138)
  • Navy blue variation 3 (Hex: #242492) RGB (36, 36, 146)
  • Navy blue variation 4 (Hex: #333399) RGB (51, 51, 153)
  • Navy blue variation 5 (Hex: #4C4CA6) RGB (76, 76, 166)
  • Navy blue variation 6 (Hex: #00007B) RGB (0, 0, 123)
  • Navy blue variation 7 (Hex: #000076) RGB (0, 0, 118)
  • Navy blue variation 8 (Hex: #00006E) RGB (0, 0, 110)
  • Navy blue variation 9 (Hex: #000067) RGB (0, 0, 103)
  • Navy blue variation 10 (Hex: #00005A) RGB (0, 0, 90)


[edit] Navy blue in human culture

Clothing

Computers

  • The color navy was on the original 16 HTML/CSS colors initially formulated for standardized computer display in the late 1980s.

Military

  • In the United States Navy and the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, uniforms which are called navy blue (e.g. Working Blues and Service Dress Blues in the US, and uniforms 1, 1A, 2B, 3, 3A, 3B (winter), 3C in Canada) are, in actuality, colored black. For the U.S. Navy, an OPNAV Information Bulletin from the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations states "The new uniform will be black rather than the present Navy blue," [4] while Canadian Forces Dress Instructions for naval units and members specify that, " 'navy blue' is a tone of black" [5]. (See also Uniforms of the United States Navy and Uniforms of the Canadian Forces).

Sororities

Music

  • Navy Blue is the name of an album by Diane Renay (all the songs on the CD are about sailors).[6]
  • NAVY BLUE is the title of a single by Rina Aiuchi which was related on October 3, 2001.

Sports Navy blue is used by numerous professional and collegiate sports teams:

[edit] References

  1. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 168 Discussion of color Navy blue
  3. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 103; Color Sample of Navy blue: Page 131 Plate 40 Color Sample E11
  4. ^ "Women's New Dress Blues Aren't Blue." OPNAV Information Bulletin. 31 July 1972
  5. ^ CANADIAN FORCES DRESS INSTRUCTIONS/INSTRUCTIONS SUR LA TENUE DES FORCES CANADIENNES
  6. ^ Diane Renay’s website

[edit] See also

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