Yale Blue
| Yale Blue | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #00356B |
| Source | Identity Guidelines |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep blue |
Yale Blue is the dark blue color used in association with Yale University.
History
Since the 1850s, Yale Crew has rowed in blue uniforms,[2] and in 1894, "dark blue" was officially adopted as Yale's color, after half a century of the university being associated with green.[3] In 1901, this was amended to "dark blue of the shade known as the color of the University of Oxford",[4] although Oxford Blue, while only 2° different in hue, is now substantially darker than Yale Blue, with a brightness of 28% compared to Yale Blue's 42%. In 2005, University Printer John Gambell was asked to standardize the color.[2] 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."[3] 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.[2]
The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289.[3][5] Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas 6254 and 6255.[2]
Other uses
Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of Indiana State University,[6] the University of Mississippi,[7] and Southern Methodist University.[8]
Yale Blue is an official color of the University of California, Berkeley, adopted in 1868 by the university's founders, who were mostly Yale graduates.[9] However, UC Berkeley uses a slightly different shade, Pantone 282 , from that adopted by Yale.[10] The "Pomona Blue" (Pantone 2935 [11]) used by Pomona College is similar to Yale Blue and is a reference to the role of Yale alumni in the college's founding.[12]
The color is similar to Duke University's Duke Blue as both are derived from prussian blue, where Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[13]
The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is Pantone 289 , very close to Yale Blue, but with no acknowledged connection.[14]
The zine produced by Yale's campus radio station WYBC is named Relatively Dark Blue Neither Purple Nor Green in reference to Gambell's description of the color.[15]
See also
- Columbia blue
- Duke blue
- Tiffany Blue
- Yale (typeface)
- Lists of colors
References
- ↑ "Yale Blue: What's in a Color? | Yale Printing & Publishing Services". https://ypps.yale.edu/blog/yale-blue-whats-color.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July–August 2010. http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/2935.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2002/10/true-blue/.
- ↑ "Yale University". The Intercollegiate Registry of Academic Costume. http://intercollegiate-registry.org/yale-university/.
- ↑ "Welcome". Office of the University Printer. http://www.yale.edu/printer/identity/images/yaleblue/pms289.gif.
- ↑ "About - Indiana State University". http://www.indstate.edu/about/history_trad.htm.
- ↑ "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. http://www.olemisssports.com/trads/ole-miss-trads.html.
- ↑ "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. http://smu.edu/spirit/.
- ↑ "Arrival Guide 2021-2022 - For International Students and Scholars". University of California, Berkeley. 2021. p. 6. https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/arrivalguidebook.pdf.
- ↑ "Brand Guidelines: Colors". UC Berkeley. https://brand.berkeley.edu/colors/.
- ↑ "Graphic Standards Manual". Pomona College. http://www.pomona.edu/sites/default/files/graphic-standards-guide.pdf.
- ↑ Lyon, E. Wilson (1977) (in en). The History of Pomona College, 1887–1969. Anaheim, California: The Castle Press. OCLC 4114776. https://archive.org/details/historyofpomonac0000lyon.
- ↑ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/faqs/duke_blue.html.
- ↑ "Corporate Identity Guidelines Primary and secondary colour palettes". Dublin City University. https://www.dcu.ie/marketing/logo/colours.shtml.
- ↑ "RDBNPNG". WYBC. http://wybc.com/zine.
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