Maroon (color)

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Maroon (#800000)

Maroon is a dark brownish to purplish red color.

The first recorded use of Maroon as a color name in English was in 1789. [1]

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[edit] Maroon (HTML/CSS)

Maroon
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Hex triplet #800000
sRGBB (r, g, b) (128, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 100%, 50%)
Source HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color color called maroon in HTML/CSS.


[edit] Etymology

Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut"). [3]

[edit] Dark red

Dark red
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Hex triplet #8B0000
sRGBB (r, g, b) (139, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v) (0°, 100%, 56%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the web color dark red.


[edit] Rich Maroon (Maroon (X11))

Rich Maroon
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Hex triplet #B03060
RGBB (r, g, b) (176, 48, 96)
HSV (h, s, v) (333°, 65%, 42%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color rich maroon, i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names, which is much brighter and more shaded toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above.

See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11.


[edit] Bright Maroon

Bright Maroon
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Hex triplet #C32148
RGBB (r, g, b) (195, 33, 72)
HSV (h, s, v) (345°, 75%, 38%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color bright maroon, i.e., the color that was designated as maroon in Crayola crayons beginning in 1949. It is a medium shade of maroon halfway between red and rose.

[edit] Maroon in human culture

Ethnography

Military

  • The maroon beret is the international symbol of elite airborne forces.

Music

Sports

Vexillology

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Maroon: Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample L7
  2. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
  3. ^ maroon. Princeton WordNet.


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