Yale Blue
| Yale “Blue Site” Blue | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #0E4C92 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (14, 76, 146) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (100, 75, 8, 40) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (212°, 90%, 57%) |
| Source | Identity Guidelines |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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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.[2][3] 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 Indiana State University,[4] University of Mississippi,[5] Southern Methodist University,.[6] The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is very close to Yale Blue.[7]
Yale Blue was an official color of the University of California, Berkeley, through at least 2007;[8] the university has since adopted Pantone 282 as its blue.[9]
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.[10]
See also
References
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- ↑ http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/images/yaleblue/pms289.gif
- ↑ http://www.indstate.edu/about/history_trad.htm
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- ↑ https://www.dcu.ie/marketing/logo/colours.shtml
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- ↑ Colors | UC Berkeley Brand Identity. brand.berkeley.edu. Retrieved on April 6, 2014.
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