Yale Blue
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Yale Blue is the dark blue
color
used in association with Yale University
.
University Printer John Gambell, who was asked to standardize the color in 2005, 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." The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone
system is Pantone 289, with Pantone 288 and Pantone 654 as related colors of higher and lower intensity. Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255. The hexadecimal value of the color is 0F4D92.
The Yale Corporation
adopted blue as the university's color in 1894, after a half century during which green was associated with the university. The crew
, however, had rowed in blue uniforms since the 1850s. 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.
and the University of Mississippi
.
It was Duke University
's official color from the 1880s until the 1960s, when the less-red Prussian blue
was adopted. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.
The color is also one of the two colors of Southern Methodist University
in Dallas, Texas
.
Blue
Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...
color
Color
Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors...
used in association with Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
University Printer John Gambell, who was asked to standardize the color in 2005, 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." The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone
Pantone
Pantone Inc. is a corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA. The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System , a proprietary color space...
system is Pantone 289, with Pantone 288 and Pantone 654 as related colors of higher and lower intensity. Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255. The hexadecimal value of the color is 0F4D92.
The Yale Corporation
Yale Corporation
The Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:...
adopted blue as the university's color in 1894, after a half century during which green was associated with the university. The crew
Sport rowing
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
, however, had rowed in blue uniforms since the 1850s. 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.
Other uses
The hue is one of the two official colors of the University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
and the University of Mississippi
University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research university located in Oxford, Mississippi. Founded in 1844, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford, four branch campuses located in Booneville, Grenada, Tupelo, and Southaven as well as the...
.
It was Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
's official color from the 1880s until the 1960s, when the less-red Prussian blue
Prussian blue
Prussian blue is a dark blue pigment with the idealized formula Fe718. Another name for the color Prussian blue is Berlin blue or, in painting, Parisian blue. Turnbull's blue is the same substance but is made from different reagents....
was adopted. However, Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.
The color is also one of the two colors of Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
in Dallas, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
.
External links
- Yale Alumni Magazine slide show about Yale Blue
- Article in The New Journal
- Yale Identity specifications
See also
- AzureAzureIn heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation....
- Brandeis Blue
- Columbia blueColumbia blueColumbia blue, also known as Jordy blue, is a light blue tertiary color named after Columbia University. The typical Columbia blue is defined by Pantone Columbia Blue 3 .- Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions :...
- Tiffany BlueTiffany BlueTiffany Blue is the colloquial name for the light medium robin egg blue color associated with Tiffany & Co., the New York City jewelry company.The Tiffany Blue color is protected as a color trademark by Tiffany & Co...
- List of colors