Navy blue explained

Navy blue
Spelling:color
Hex:000080
Source:HTML/CSS[1]
Isccname:Vivid blue
Cmyk:(100, 100, 0, 50)

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
Hex:091F92
Source:Gallego and Sanz[4]
Isccname:Vivid blue

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)

Navy blue (Crayola)
Hex:0066CC
Source:Crayola
Isccname:Vivid blue

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
Hex:2B2E43
Source:Pantone TCX
Isccname:Dark purplish blue

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

Purple navy

Purple navy
Hex:4E5180
Source:ISCC-NBS
Isccname:Moderate purplish blue

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
Hex:32127A
Source:http://www.99colors.net/name/persian-indigo/Maerz and Paul[7]
Isccname:Vivid purplish blue

Another name for this color 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
Hex:1E2952
Source:Resene
Isccname:Dark blue

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)
Hex:000080
Source:https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp

Military

Music

Sports

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

Association football
Australian Football League
Major League Baseball
National Basketball Association
National Football League
National Hockey League
National Rugby League
American Collegiate Teams

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 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.
  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. Web site: Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names – Oa through Oz. John C.. Foster. 30 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20170730090345/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-p.htm. 30 July 2017. dead.
  7. The color displayed in the color box 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. Web site: Resene Color List. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20240711222405/https://www.resene.co.nz/swatches/preview.php?chart=Resene%20Multi-finish%20range%20%282016%29&brand=Resene&name=Space%20Cadet. 11 July 2024. 24 July 2024.
  10. Web site: Canadian Forces Dress Instructions. https://web.archive.org/web/20090326174038/http://www.army.gc.ca/lf/Downloads/cfp265.pdf. 26 March 2009.
  11. Web site: Diane Renay. 30 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20070404022114/http://www.dianerenay.com/. 4 April 2007. dead.