Yale Blue

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Yale Blue – the dark blue color used in association with Yale University – varies with use and history. University Printer John Gambell characterized the spirit of the color 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."1

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.2 Scientifically, Yale Blue is defined as being 482nm in wavelength.

The Yale Corporation adopted blue as the university's color in 1894, after a half century during which green was associated with the university.1

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Other uses

The hue is one of the two official colors of the University of California, Berkeley3 and, along with Harvard University's crimson, of Southern Methodist University.4

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.5

References

  1. ^ a b "True Blue" by Ellen Thompson. Retrieved April 9, 2007.
  2. ^ Yale University: "Yale's visual identity." Retrieved April 9, 2007.
  3. ^ "What are Cal’s official colors?". Retrieved on 2007-12-03.
  4. ^ "SMU Campus Tour". Retrieved on 2007-12-03.
  5. ^ "The origin of Duke Blue". Retrieved on 2007-12-03.

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See also


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Cornflower blue Dark blue Denim Dodger blue Duke blue Egyptian blue Electric blue Han blue Indigo Intl. Klein blue
                   
Light blue Majorelle blue Maya blue Midnight blue Navy blue Periwinkle Persian blue Powder blue Prussian blue Royal blue
                   
Sapphire Sky blue Steel blue Ultramarine Yale blue
         

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