Midnight blue

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For other uses, see Midnight blue (disambiguation).

Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue, close to black, that was named for its darkness. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of Indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. There are two different shades of midnight blue--the X11 color and the Crayola color.

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[edit] Midnight blue

Midnight blue
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #191970
B (r, g, b) (25, 25, 112)
HSV (h, s, v) (148°, 25%, 20%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color midnight blue.

This is the X11 web color midnight blue.



[edit] Dark midnight blue

Dark Midnight Blue
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #003366
B (r, g, b) (0, 51, 102)
HSV (h, s, v) (148°, 20%, 17%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color dark midnight blue.

This is the color called midnight blue in 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] Shades of midnight blue color comparison chart

  • Dark midnight blue (Crayola Midnight Blue) (Hex: #003366) RGB (0,51,102)
  • Midnight blue (web color) (Hex: #191970) RGB (25,25,112)

[edit] Other variations of midnight blue

  • Midnight blue variation 1 (Hex: #132456)
  • Midnight blue variation 2 (Hex: #123245)
  • Midnight blue variation 3 (Hex: #123456)
  • Midnight blue variation 4 (Hex: #132343)
  • Midnight blue variation 5 (Hex: #122246)
  • Midnight blue variation 6 (Hex: #012345)
  • Midnight blue variation 7 (Hex: #132232)
  • Midnight blue variation 8 (Hex: #123543)
  • Midnight blue variation 9 (Hex: #133553)
  • Midnight blue variation 10 (Hex: #000062)

[edit] Midnight blue in human culture

Military

  • 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.

Web site design

  • 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


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