Cardinal (color)

Cardinal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#C41E3A
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(196, 30, 58)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 85, 70, 23)
HSV (h, s, v)	(350°, 85%, 77%)
Source	Maerz and Paul
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Stanford University Cardinal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#8C1515
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(140, 21, 21)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 100, 65, 32)
HSV (h, s, v)	(144°, 95.9%, 75.7%)
Source	Stanford University Identity Toolkit
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

University of Southern California (USC) Cardinal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#990000
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(153, 27, 30)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(7, 100, 65, 32)
HSV (h, s, v)	(0°, 100%, 60%)
Source	USC Identity Guidelines
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Fresno State Cardinal

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#C41230
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(196, 18, 48)
CMYK^H (c, m, y, k)	(0, 100, 79, 20)
HSV (h, s, v)	(350°, 90.8%, 76.9%)
Source	Fresno State Branding Standards
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Cardinal is a vivid red, which may get its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals (although the color worn by cardinals is actually scarlet), or from the bird of the same name.

The first recorded use of cardinal as a color name in English was in the year 1698.

The corresponding Pantone Matching System (PMS) color is 200, as seen in the school colors for Wisconsin, Arizona and Wesleyan, and as one of the two official colors of the Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternities and the only official color of the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi. However, Stanford's, M.I.T.´s, and U.S.C.´s PMS color is 201, while Carnegie Mellon and Worcester Polytechnic Institute use PMS 187, Brown University uses PMS 192, Iowa State University uses PMS 186, and Ball State University uses PMS 199.