Yale Blue

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Yale Blue
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#00356B
HSV       (h, s, v)(210°, 100%, 42%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(0, 53, 107)
SourceIdentity Guidelines
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

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

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History[]

The flag in this painting of the Yale 1859 crew team is believed to be the first documented Yale Blue, though the photograph is in black and white.[1]

Since the 1850s, Yale Crew has rowed in blue uniforms,[2] and in 1894, blue was officially adopted as Yale's color, after half a century of the university being associated with green.[3] In 2005, University Printer John Gambell was asked to standardize the color.[2] 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."[3] 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.[2]

The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289.[3][4] Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255.[2]

Other uses[]

The hue of Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of Indiana State University,[5] the University of Mississippi,[6] and Southern Methodist University.[7] The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is very close to Yale Blue.[8]

Yale Blue was an official color of the University of California, Berkeley, through at least 2007;[9] the university has since adopted Pantone 282 as its blue.[10]

It was Duke University's official color from the 1880s until 1961, when the school adopted Prussian blue. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[11]

The zine produced by Yale's campus radio station WYBC is named Relatively Dark Blue Neither Purple Nor Green in reference to Gambell's description of the color.[12]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Yale Blue: What's in a Color? | Yale Printing & Publishing Services".
  2. ^ a b c d "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July–August 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  4. ^ "Welcome". Office of the University Printer.
  5. ^ "About - Indiana State University".
  6. ^ "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  7. ^ "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  8. ^ "Public Affairs and Media Relations Office - corporate identity - DCU identity - DCU".
  9. ^ "History, Symbols, and Traditions: What are Cal's official colors?". University of California, Berkeley. May 8, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
  10. ^ Colors | UC Berkeley Brand Identity. brand.berkeley.edu. Retrieved on April 6, 2014.
  11. ^ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
  12. ^ "RDBNPNG". WYBC. Retrieved April 22, 2021.

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