- Maroon (color)
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"Maroon" redirects here. For other uses, see Maroon (disambiguation).
Maroon 
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Hex triplet #800000 sRGBB (r, g, b) (128, 0, 0) HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 100%, 50%) Source HTML/CSS[1] B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Maroon is a dark red color.
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Etymology
Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut").[2]
The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.[3]
Variations of maroon
Maroon (Crayola)
Maroon
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Hex triplet #C32148 RGBB (r, g, b) (195, 33, 72) HSV (h, s, v) (345°, 75%, 38%) Source Crayola B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) At right is displayed the color that was designated as maroon in Crayola crayons beginning in 1949. It is of dark purpleish to dark red shade. A medium shade of maroon halfway between red and rose.
Also created when mixing Red with a black or dark purple-ish color
Rich maroon (maroon (X11))
Rich Maroon
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Hex triplet #B03060 RGBB (r, g, b) (176, 48, 96) HSV (h, s, v) (333°, 65%, 42%) Source X11 B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) At right is displayed the color rich maroon, i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names, which is much brighter and more toned toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above.
See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11.
Dark red
Dark Red
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Hex triplet #8B0000 sRGBB (r, g, b) (139, 0, 0) HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 100%, 56%) Source X11 B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Displayed at right is the web color dark red.
Maroon in human culture
- Maroon is the main color of the Hollister Co. logo.
- Maroon was the livery applied to coaching stock of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (1923–1947), and to much of that of British Railways in the period 1956–1965.
- Maroon is a favorite epithet used by the Looney Tunes cartoon character Bugs Bunny towards another character who is particularly slow to grasp a simple concept or who is easily fooled. It is said to be a mispronunciation of the word Moron (psychology). [4]
- Vajrayana Buddhist monks, such as the Dalai Lama, wear maroon robes.[5]
- Theravada Buddhist monks usually wear saffron robes, but may occasionally wear maroon robes.
Vexillology (The study of Flags)
- Maroon and white are the colors of the Flag of Latvia and the Flag of Qatar.
See also
References
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ "maroon". Princeton WordNet. http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=maroon.
- ^ Maerz and Paul. A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1930, Page 198; Color Sample of Maroon: Page 37, Plate 7, Color Sample L7.
- ^ "maroon". Urban Dictionary. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=maroon#.
- ^ New York Times February 19, 2009--Tibetan Buddhist monks call for boycott of 2009 Tibetan New Year celebrations to protest casualties of 2008 Tibetan unrest (see picture of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist monks):
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