Yale Blue

Yale “Blue Site” Blue
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #00356B
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (0, 53, 107)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (100, 75, 8, 40)
HSV       (h, s, v) (210°, 100%, 42%)
Source Identity Guidelines
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.

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 the university being associated with 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] the University of Mississippi,[5] and 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July–August 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 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. ↑ http://www.indstate.edu/about/history_trad.htm
  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. ↑ https://www.dcu.ie/marketing/logo/colours.shtml
  8. ↑ "History, Symbols, and Traditions: What are Cal's official colors?". University of California, Berkeley. May 8, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
  9. ↑ Colors | UC Berkeley Brand Identity. brand.berkeley.edu. Retrieved on April 6, 2014.
  10. ↑ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved December 3, 2007.

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