Yale Blue
| Yale Blue | |
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 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #0F4D92 |
| sRGBB (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 azure color used in association with Yale University.
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History [edit]
Since the 1850s, 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.[3][2] Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255.[1]
Other uses [edit]
The hue of Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of University of California, Berkeley,[4] University of Mississippi,[5] and Southern Methodist University.[6]
It was Duke University's official color from the 1880s until 1961, when they adopted Prussian blue. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[7]
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c d "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July/August 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ a b c Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/images/yaleblue/pms289.gif
- ^ "History, Symbols, and Traditions: What are Cal's official colors?". University of California, Berkeley. May 8, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
- ^ "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
