Yale Blue

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Yale Blue
    Color coordinates
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)

Yale Blue is the dark azure color used in association with Yale University.

History

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

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July/August 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2012. 
  3. ↑ http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/images/yaleblue/pms289.gif
  4. ↑ "History, Symbols, and Traditions: What are Cal's official colors?". University of California, Berkeley. May 8, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007. 
  5. ↑ "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. Retrieved January 4, 2012. 
  6. ↑ "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. Retrieved January 4, 2012. 
  7. ↑ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved December 3, 2007. 

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