Navy blue

Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue.

French sailor in dark blue uniform
Navy blue
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#000080
sRGBB (r, g, b)(0, 0, 128)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k)(100, 100, 0, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)(240°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(13, 52, 266°)
SourceHTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

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
Main article: Indigo § 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°)
SourceGallego and Sanz[4]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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)
 
    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°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The Crayola color named "navy blue" is not as dark a shade as the standard navy blue shown above.

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

Peacoat
Peacoat
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#2B2E43
sRGBB (r, g, b)(43, 46, 67)
HSV (h, s, v)(232°, 36%, 26%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(20, 15, 262°)
SourcePantone TCX
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark purplish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Cotton eXtended (TCX)" color list, color #19-3920 TCX—Peacoat.

Purple navy
Purple navy
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#4E5180
sRGBB (r, g, b)(78, 81, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)(236°, 39%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(36, 38, 264°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate purplish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Purple navy is a color that has been used by some navies. "Purple navy" in this color terminology usage is regarded as a shade of indigo, a color which can be regarded as a tone of purple when using the common English definition of purple, i.e., a color between blue and red.

The first recorded use of purple navy as a color name in English was in 1926.[5]

The source of this color is Dictionary of Color Names (1955).[6]

Persian indigo
Persian indigo
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#32127A
sRGBB (r, g, b)(50, 18, 122)
HSV (h, s, v)(258°, 85%, 48%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(18, 56, 272°)
Source/Maerz and Paul[7]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid purplish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Another name for this color (seldom used nowadays) is regimental, because in the 19th century it was commonly used by many nations for navy uniforms.

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.[8]

Space cadet
Space cadet
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#1D2951
sRGBB (r, g, b)(29, 41, 81)
HSV (h, s, v)(226°, 64%, 32%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(18, 29, 259°)
SourceResene
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Space cadet is one of the colors on the Resene Color List,[9] 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
sRGBB (r, g, b)(0, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)(240°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(13, 52, 266°)
Source
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 darker due to counter fading. The Canadian Forces Dress Instructions specify that "'navy blue' is a tone of black".[10] (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).[11]

Sports

Navy blue is used by numerous professional and collegiate sports teams:

See also

References
  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. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Purple Navy: Page 115 Plate 46 Color Sample F12
  6. Foster, John C. "Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names – Oa through Oz". Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. Resene Color List
  10. "Canadian Forces Dress Instructions" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2009.
  11. "Diane Renay". Archived from the original on 4 April 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
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