Yale Blue
| Yale Blue | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #0F4D92 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (15, 77, 146) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (212°, 90%, 57%) |
| Source | Yale University - Identity Guidelines | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Yale Blue is the dark blue color used in association with Yale University.
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[edit] History
Since the 1850's, Yale Crew has rowed in blue uniforms,[1] and in 1894, blue was officially adopted as Yale's color, after half a century of being associated as green.[2] In 2005, University Printer John Gambell was asked to standardize the color.[1] He had characterized its spirit as "a strong, relatively dark blue, neither purple nor green, though it can be somewhat gray. It should be a color you would call blue."[2] A vault in the university secretary’s office holds two scraps of silk, apocryphally from a bolt of cloth for academic robes, preserved as the first official Yale Blue.[1]
The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289.[2] Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255.[1]
[edit] Other uses
The hue of Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of University of California, Berkeley,[3] University of Mississippi,[4] and Southern Methodist University,[5] with Harvard Crimson/Red being the other color for the latter two schools.[4][5]
It was Duke University's official color from the 1880s until 1961, when they adopted Prussian blue. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July/August 2010. http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2010_07/lastlook128.html. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ a b c Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2002/10/true-blue/. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ "History, Symbols, and Traditions: What are Cal’s official colors?". University of California, Berkeley. May 8, 2007. http://facultyguide.berkeley.edu/campuslife/faq_18.html. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
- ^ a b "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. http://www.olemisssports.com/trads/ole-miss-trads.html. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ a b "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. http://smu.edu/spirit/. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/faqs/duke_blue.html. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
