Bleu de France (colour)

Bleu de France

— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet #318CE7
RGBB (r, g, b) (49, 140, 231)
HSV (h, s, v) (210°, 79%, 91%)
Source Pourpre.com
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Bleu de France (Blue of France) is a colour traditionally used to represent France. Blue has been used in the heraldry of the French monarchy since at least the 12th century, but a brighter version, based on the blue of the French Tricolour is used in modern times, particularly in a sporting context. French national teams in all sports will normally use blue as their main colour.

Blue is France's national racing colour, therefore several French motorsport teams have used it, including Alpine, Amilcar, Ballot, Bugatti, Delage, Delahaye, Gordini, Ligier, Mathis, Matra, Panhard, Pescarolo Sport, Prost Grand Prix, Rondeau, Salmson, Talbot-Lago, Voisin. The two notable exceptions are Citroën and Renault - the former has used red and white, whereas the latter has used yellow and black.

Bleu de France as a commercial name

The colour Bleu de France has a cruise ship named after it, the MS Bleu de France.

Race cars in Bleu de France

See also

Shades of blue
Air Force blue Alice blue Azure Baby blue Bleu de France Blue Bondi blue Brandeis blue Cambridge Blue Carolina blue
                   
Celeste Cerulean Cobalt blue Columbia blue Cornflower blue Cyan Dark blue Deep sky blue Dodger blue Duke blue
                   
Egyptian blue Electric blue Eton blue Federal blue Glaucous Electric indigo International Klein Blue Iris Light blue Majorelle Blue
                   
Maya blue Midnight blue Navy blue Non-photo blue Palatinate blue Periwinkle Persian blue Phthalo blue Powder blue Prussian blue
                   
Royal blue Sapphire Sky blue Steel blue Teal Tiffany Blue True Blue Tufts Blue Turquoise UCLA Blue
                   
Ultramarine Yale Blue
   
The samples shown above are only indicative.