Navy blue | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #000080 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (0, 0, 128) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (100, 98, 14, 17) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (240°, 100%, 50%) |
Source | HTML/CSS |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Navy blue (Crayola) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #1974D2 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (25, 116, 210) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (88, 45, 0, 18) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (210°, 88%, 82%) |
Source | Crayola |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Indigo dye | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #091F92 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (9, 31, 146) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (100, 80, 0, 0) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (230°, 94%, 57%) |
Source | Gallego and Sanz |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Purple navy | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #4E5180 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (78, 81, 128) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (39, 37, 0, 50) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (236°, 39%, 50%) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Persian indigo | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #32127A |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (50, 18, 122) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (96, 100, 16, 11) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (258°, 85%, 48%) |
Source | [1]/Maerz and Paul |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Space cadet | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #1D2951 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (29, 41, 81) |
CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (64, 49, 0, 68) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (226°, 64%, 32%) |
Source | Resene |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
Navy Blue (HTML) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #000080 |
Source | [2] |
Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue.
Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the British Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. When this color name, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 19th century, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue.
An early use of navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840 though the Oxford English Dictionary has a citation from 1813.
In practice, actual blue uniforms of the United States Navy and other navies have become outright black in color, in order to combat fading.
At right is displayed the color bright navy blue. This is the bright tone called "navy blue" by Crayola.
This tone of navy blue was formulated as a Crayola color in 1958.
Indigo dye is the color that is called Añil (the Spanish word for "indigo dye") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.
Indigo dye is the basis for all the historical navy blue colors, since in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, almost all navy uniforms were made by dyeing them with various shades of indigo dye.
At right is displayed the color purple navy.
Purple navy is a color that has been used by some navies. "Purple navy" in this color terminology usage is regarded as a shade of indigo, a color which can be regarded as a tone of purple when using the common English definition of purple, i.e., a color between blue and red.
The first recorded use of purple navy as a color name in English was in 1926.
The source of this color is Dictionary of Color Names (1955).
The color Persian indigo is displayed at right. Another name for this color (seldom used nowadays) is regimental, because in the 19th century it was commonly used by many nations for navy uniforms.