Navy blue

Navy
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#000080
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(0, 0, 128)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 50%)
Source		HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Navy blue is a very dark shade of the color blue which almost appears as black. 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. It was also worn by the Americans during some wars.

When this color, 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.^[2]

The first recorded use of Navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840.^[3]

Navy blue in culture

Clothing

• A blazer, which is usually colored navy blue, is a special type of sportcoat with brass buttons that is often worn at special occasions such as at graduations, when eating at gourmet restaurants, or when yachting.

Computers

• The color navy was on the original 16 HTML/CSS colors initially formulated for standardized computer display in the late 1980s.

Military

• In the United States Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy, uniforms which are called navy blue (e.g. Working Blues and Service Dress Blues in the US, and uniforms 1, 1A, 2B, 3, 3A, 3B (winter), 3C in Canada) are, in actuality, colored black. Canadian Forces Dress Instructions for naval units and members specify that, " 'navy blue' is a tone of black".^[4] (See also Uniforms of the United States Navy and Uniforms of the Canadian Forces).

Music

• Navy Blue is the name of an album by Diane Renay (all the songs on the CD are about sailors).^[5]
• NAVY BLUE is the title of a single by Rina Aiuchi which was released on October 3, 2001.

Sports

Navy blue is used by numerous professional and collegiate sports teams:

References

See also

• List of colors
• Air Force blue