Navy blue

Navy blue

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#000080
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 0, 128)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(100, 98, 14, 17)
HSV (h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 50%)
Source	HTML/CSS^[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue.

French sailor in dark blue uniform

Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th century, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue.^[2]

An early use of navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840^[3] though the Oxford English Dictionary has a citation from 1813.

In practice, actual blue uniforms of the United States Navy and other navies have become outright black in color, in order to combat fading.

Variations

Bright navy blue

Navy blue (Crayola)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#1974D2
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(25, 116, 210)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(88, 45, 0, 18)
HSV (h, s, v)	(210°, 88%, 82^[4]%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color bright navy blue. This is the bright tone called "navy blue" by Crayola.

This tone of navy blue was formulated as a Crayola color in 1958.

Indigo dye

Indigo dye

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#091F92
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(9, 31, 146)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(100, 80, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(230°, 94%, 57%)
Source	Gallego and Sanz^[5]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Indigo dye is the color that is called Añil (the Spanish word for "indigo dye") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Indigo dye is the basis for all the historical navy blue colors, since in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, almost all navy uniforms were made by dyeing them with various shades of indigo dye.

Purple navy

Purple navy

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#4E5180
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(78, 81, 128)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(39, 37, 0, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(236°, 39%, 50^[6]%)
Source	ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color purple navy.

Purple navy is a color that has been used by some navies. "Purple navy" in this color terminology usage is regarded as a shade of indigo, a color which can be regarded as a tone of purple when using the common English definition of purple, i.e., a color between blue and red.

The first recorded use of purple navy as a color name in English was in 1926.^[7]

The source of this color is Dictionary of Color Names (1955).^[8]

Persian indigo

Persian indigo

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#32127A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(50, 18, 122)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(96, 100, 16, 11)
HSV (h, s, v)	(258°, 85%, 48%)
Source	/Maerz and Paul^[9]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color Persian indigo is displayed at right. Another name for this color (seldom used nowadays) is regimental, because in the 19th century it was commonly used by many nations for navy uniforms.

The first recorded use of regimental (the original name for the color now called Persian indigo) as a color name in English was in 1912.^[10]

Space cadet

Space cadet

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#1D2951
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(29, 41, 81)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(64, 49, 0, 68)
HSV (h, s, v)	(226°, 64%, 32^[11]%)
Source	Resene
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color space cadet.

Space cadet is one of the colors on the Resene Color List,^[12] a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color was formulated in 2007.

This color is apparently a formulation of an impression of the color that cadets in space navy training would wear.

Navy blue in culture

Computers

Navy Blue (HTML)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#000080
Source

The color navy was one of the original 16 HTML/CSS colors initially formulated for standardized computer display in the late 1980s.

Military

In many world navies, including the United States Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy, uniforms which are called navy blue are, in actuality, colored black, as the uniforms became darker to combat fading. The Canadian Forces Dress Instructions specify that "'navy blue' is a tone of black".^[13] (See also Uniforms of the United States Navy and Uniforms of the Canadian Forces).

Music

Navy Blue is the name of an album by Diane Renay (all the songs on the CD are about sailors).^[14]
NAVY BLUE is the title of a single by Rina Aiuchi which was released on October 3, 2001.

Sports

Navy blue is used by numerous professional and collegiate sports teams:

Association football

Scottish national team
United States men's and women's national teams
Falkirk F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
Genoa C.F.C.
Melbourne Victory
FC Girondins de Bordeaux
Fenerbahçe S.K.
Paris Saint-Germain F.C.
Chicago Fire Soccer Club
Los Angeles Galaxy
New England Revolution
New York City F.C.
Philadelphia Union
Sporting Kansas City
Vancouver Whitecaps

Australian Football League

Major League Baseball

National Basketball Association

National Football League

National Hockey League

National Rugby League

Collegiate Teams

References

↑ "CSS Color Module Level 3". w3.org.
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 168 Discussion of color navy blue
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 103; Color Sample of Navy blue: Page 131 Plate 40 Color Sample E11
↑ Forret, Peter. "RGB color converter - toolstud.io". Retrieved 30 October 2016.
↑ Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guía de coloraciones (Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guide to Colorations) Madrid: H. Blume. ISBN 84-89840-31-8
↑ Forret, Peter. "RGB color converter - toolstud.io". Retrieved 30 October 2016.
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Purple Navy: Page 115 Plate 46 Color Sample F12
↑ Foster, John C. "Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names - Oa through Oz". Retrieved 30 October 2016.
↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called regimental in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color regimental is displayed on page 117, Plate 47, Color Sample C10.
↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203 (it is also stated under the entry on Persian Blue on page 201 that the color on Plate 47 Color Sample C10 (regimental) is a [darker] tone of Persian blue.); color sample of Regimental: Page 117 Plate 47 Color Sample C10
↑ Forret, Peter. "RGB color converter - toolstud.io". Retrieved 30 October 2016.
↑ Resene Color List
↑ "Canadian Forces Dress Instructions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2009.
↑ "Diane Renay". Retrieved 30 October 2016.

Shades of blue

Air Force blue	Air superiority blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Bleu de France	Blue	Blue-gray	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue

Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue	Celeste	Cerulean	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue

Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue	Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal blue	Glaucous	Electric indigo	Indigo

International Klein Blue	Iris	Light blue	Majorelle Blue	Marian blue	Maya blue	Medium blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue

Oxford 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	Violet-blue	Viridian

Yale Blue	YInMn Blue	Zaffre

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