Navy_blue

Navy blue

Navy

— Color coordinates —

Hex triplet #000080

sRGB^B (r, g, b) (0, 0, 128)

HSV (h, s, v) (240°, 100%, 50%)

Source HTML/CSS^[1]

B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world.

When this color, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 1800s, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue. ^[2]

The first recorded use of Navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840. ^[3]

1 Navy blue in human culture
2 References
3 See also

Navy blue in human culture

Clothing

A blazer, which is usually colored navy blue, is a special type of sportcoat with brass buttons that is often worn at special occasions such as at graduations, when dining at gourmet restaurants, or when yachting.

Computers

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

Military

In the United States Navy and the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, many uniforms which are called navy blue (e.g. Working Blues and Service Dress Blues in the US and uniforms 1, 1A, 2B, 3, 3A, 3B (winter), 3C in Canada) are such a dark shade of navy blue that they appear black (see Uniforms of the United States Navy), especially under artificial indoor lighting, which often tends toward the yellow part of the spectrum.

Sororities

Navy Blue and Maroon are the official colors of Delta Xi Phi.

Music

Navy Blue is the name of a CD by Diane Renay (all the songs on the CD are about sailors). ^[4]
NAVY BLUE is the title of a single by Rina Aiuchi which was related on 3 October 2001.

Sports

Navy blue is used by numerous sports teams. In Association football, the Scottish national team, the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball, the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots of the National Football League, the Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers (Alternate Jersey), and Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, Penn State University, the University of Arizona, the Carlton Blues of the Australian Football League and the Melbourne Storm of the National Rugby League are notable examples.

References

^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
^ 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
^ Diane Renay’s website

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Navy blue in human culture

References

See also