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Yale Blue
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#00356B
sRGBB (r, g, b)(0, 53, 107)
CMYKH (c, m, y, k)(100, 75, 8, 40)[1][a]
HSV (h, s, v)(210°, 100%, 42%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(22, 45, 254°)
SourceYale University[2]
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Yale Blue is the dark blue color used in association with Yale University.

History

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The flag in this painting of the Yale 1859 crew team is believed to be the first documented Yale Blue, though the photograph is in black and white.[3]
The Yale Bowl scoreboard, painted in Yale Blue.

Since the 1850s, Yale Crew has rowed in blue uniforms,[4] and in 1894, "dark blue" was officially adopted as Yale's color, after half a century of the university being associated with green.[5] In 1901, this was amended to "dark blue of the shade known as the color of the University of Oxford",[6] 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.[4] 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."[5] 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.[4]

The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289.[5][7] As a spot color, Yale Blue inks may be ordered from the Superior Printing Ink Co., formulas HB 6254 for coated paper and HB 6255 for uncoated paper.[4][1] As a process color, Yale Blue is specified as CMYK 100-75-8-40 for coated paper and CMYK 100-70-5-35 on uncoated paper, with the university describing these percentages as general guidelines only.[1]

Other uses

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Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of Indiana State University,[8] the University of Mississippi,[9] and Southern Methodist University.[10]

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.[11] However, UC Berkeley uses a slightly different shade, Pantone 282  , from that adopted by Yale.[12] The "Pomona Blue" (Pantone 2935  [13]) used by Pomona College is similar to Yale Blue and is a reference to the role of Yale alumni in the college's founding.[14]

The color is similar to Duke University's Duke Blue   as both are derived from prussian blue, where Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.[15]

The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is Pantone 289  , very close to Yale Blue, but with no acknowledged connection.[16]

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.[17]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Process build percentages for coated paper. Yale specifies 100-70-5-35 for uncoated paper and describes both as general guidelines.[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Yale Colors | Yale Identity". Yale Identity. Yale University. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
  2. ↑ "Websites | Yale Identity". Yale Identity. Yale University. Retrieved 2026-08-03.
  3. ↑ "Yale Blue: What's in a Color? | Yale Printing & Publishing Services".
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Kind of Blue". Yale Alumni Magazine. July–August 2010. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 Thompson, Ellen (October 1, 2002). "True Blue". The New Journal. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Yale University". The Intercollegiate Registry of Academic Costume. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Welcome". Office of the University Printer.
  8. ↑ "About - Indiana State University". Archived from the original on April 3, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Ole Miss Traditions: Red & Blue". University of Mississippi. October 1, 2002. Archived from the original on September 24, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  10. ↑ "SMU SPIRIT AND TRADITIONS". Southern Methodist University. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Arrival Guide 2021-2022 - For International Students and Scholars" (PDF). University of California, Berkeley. 2021. p. 6.
  12. ↑ "Brand Guidelines: Colors". UC Berkeley. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Graphic Standards Manual" (PDF). Pomona College. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
  14. ↑ Lyon, E. Wilson (1977). The History of Pomona College, 1887–1969. Anaheim, California: The Castle Press. p. 42. OCLC 4114776.
  15. ↑ "The origin of Duke Blue". Duke University Libraries. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
  16. ↑ "Corporate Identity Guidelines Primary and secondary colour palettes". Dublin City University. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015.
  17. ↑ "RDBNPNG". WYBC. Archived from the original on April 14, 2021. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
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