Navy blue

Navy blue (Crayola)
Navy blue (Crayola)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#0066CC
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(0, 102, 204)
HSV (h, s, v)	(210°, 100%, 80%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(44, 93, 255°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid blue
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Indigo dye
Indigo dye
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#091F92
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(9, 31, 146)
HSV (h, s, v)	(230°, 94%, 57%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(20, 70, 264°)
Source	Gallego and Sanz
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid blue
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Navy blue
Navy blue
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#000080
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(0, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(13, 52, 266°)
Source	HTML/CSS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid blue
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte); H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue.

Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with naval white) worn by officers in the 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.

Variations

Indigo dye

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.

Navy blue (Crayola)

The Crayola color named "navy blue" is not as dark a shade as the blues actually used by navies.

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

Peacoat

Peacoat

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#2B2E43
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(43, 46, 67)
HSV (h, s, v)	(232°, 36%, 26%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(20, 15, 262°)
Source	Pantone TCX
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Dark purplish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The source of this color is the Pantone textile cotton extended color list, color #19-3920 TCX—peacoat.

Persian indigo

Persian Indigo

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#32127A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(50, 18, 122)
HSV (h, s, v)	(258°, 85%, 48%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(18, 56, 272°)
Source	[1]/Maerz and Paul^[5]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid purplish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Persian indigo is named for an association with a product from Persia: Persian cloth dyed with indigo.

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.^[6]

Space cadet

Space cadet

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#1E2952
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(30, 41, 82)
HSV (h, s, v)	(227°, 63%, 32%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(18, 29, 260°)
Source	Resene
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Dark blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Space cadet is one of the colors on the Resene Color List,^[7] 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.

In culture

Computers

Navy Blue (HTML)

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#000080
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(0, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 50%)
CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)	(13, 52, 266°)
Source	[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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 progressively darker over time to counter fading of the dye, though for modern dyes are fade resistant. The Canadian Forces dress instructions specify that "'navy blue' is a tone of black".^[8] (See also uniforms of the United States Navy and uniforms of the Canadian Forces.)

Music

Navy Blue is an album by Diane Renay (all the songs are about sailors).^[9]

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.
Manchester City F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
York City 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
Viking Stavanger

Australian Football League

Major League Baseball

National Basketball Association

National Football League

National Hockey League

National Rugby League

American Collegiate Teams

References

^ "CSS Color Module Level 3". w3.org. 19 June 2018.
^ 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
^ 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
^ 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
^ "Resene Color List". Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
^ "Canadian Forces Dress Instructions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2009.
^ "Diane Renay". Archived from the original on 4 April 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2016.

External links

Media related to Navy blue at Wikimedia Commons

[css3-color-1] "CSS Color Module Level 3". w3.org. 19 June 2018.

[2] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 168 Discussion of color navy blue

[3] 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

[4] 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

[5] 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.

[6] 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

[7] "Resene Color List". Archived from the original on 11 July 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.

[8] "Canadian Forces Dress Instructions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2009.

[9] "Diane Renay". Archived from the original on 4 April 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2016.

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