| 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.
University Printer John Gambell, who was asked to standardize the color in 2005,[1] 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] The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289, with Pantone 288 and Pantone 654 as related colors of higher and lower intensity.[3] Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255.[1] The hexadecimal value of the color is 0F4D92.[4]
The Yale Corporation adopted blue as the university's color in 1894, after a half century during which green was associated with the university.[2] The crew, however, had rowed in blue uniforms since the 1850s.[1] 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]
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The hue is one of the two official colors of the University of California, Berkeley[5] and the University of Mississippi.
It was Duke University's official color from the 1880s until the 1960s, when the less-red Prussian blue was adopted. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[6]
The color is also one of the two colors of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
