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For other uses, see Midnight blue (disambiguation).
Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue, close to black, that was named for its darkness. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of Indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. There are two different shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color.
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Midnight blue
Midnight blue — Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #191970 RGBB (r, g, b) (25, 25, 112) HSV (h, s, v) (240°, 78%, 44%) Source X11 B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) At right is displayed the color midnight blue.
This is the X11 web color midnight blue.
Midnight blue (crayola)
Midnight Blue — Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #003366 RGBB (r, g, b) (0, 51, 102) HSV (h, s, v) (210°, 100%, 40%) Source Crayola B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) At right is displayed the color of midnight blue. Crayola crayons.
Midnight blue has been an official Crayola color since 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1949, it was called Prussian blue.
Midnight blue in culture
- US Air Force Midnight Blue is the color used on ABU (Air Battle Uniform) nametapes and rank insignia. A thread color from the manufactures American and Efird that is used by a major supplier of military nametapes is color number 51621. Madeira embroidery thread (100% Viscose) color 1244 is also a very dark midnight (almost black) blue thread.
Sports
- The Boston Red Sox have used midnight blue and red as their official team colors.
- The Buffalo Sabres have used midnight blue as an official team color ever since they discarded black & red as their team colors and returned to their blue & gold color scheme just before the start of the 2006-07 NHL season.
- The Edmonton Oilers use midnight blue as an official team color, alongside copper.
- The Dallas Mavericks have used midnight blue as one of their official team colors since the 2001-02 NBA season. Their former primary road uniforms were colored midnight blue with "DALLAS" spelled out in silver on the front. Currently, the Mavericks use midnight blue as their secondary color.
- The Golden State Warriors have used midnight blue as one of their official team colors since the 1997-98 NBA season.
- The New York Yankees have used midnight blue and white as their official team colors.
- The Toledo Rockets use midnight blue and gold as their official team colors.[1]
- The Deccan Chargers use midnight blue and silver as their official team colors.
- Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan, a type of Martial arts, uses midnight blue as an expert ranking.
Web site design
- As it is a web-safe color, Midnight blue is an extremely popular color choice, showing up on various websites, including the latest version of Google's blog service, Blogger.
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