Midnight blue

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For the Kenny Burrell album, see Midnight Blue (album).

Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue, close to black, that was named for its darkness. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of Indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. There are two different shades of midnight blue--the X11 color and the Crayola color.

1 Midnight blue
2 Dark midnight blue
3 Shades of midnight blue color comparison chart
4 Other variations of midnight blue
5 See also

[edit] Midnight blue

Midnight blue
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Hex triplet		#191970
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(25, 25, 112)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(148°, 25%, 20%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color midnight blue.

This is the X11 web color midnight blue.

As it is a web-safe color, Midnight blue is an extremely popular color choice, showing up on various websites, including the latest version of Google's blog service, Blogger.

[edit] Dark midnight blue

Dark Midnight Blue
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Hex triplet		#003366
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(0, 51, 102)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(148°, 20%, 17%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color dark midnight blue.

This is the color called midnight blue in Crayola crayons.

Midnight blue has been an official Crayola color since 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1949, it was called Prussian blue.

[edit] Shades of midnight blue color comparison chart

Midnight blue (web color) (Hex: #191970) RGB (25,25,112)
Dark midnight blue (Crayola Midnight Blue) (Hex: #003366) RGB (0,51,102)

[edit] Other variations of midnight blue

Midnight blue variation 1 (Hex: #132456)
Midnight blue variation 2 (Hex: #123245)
Midnight blue variation 3 (Hex: #123456)
Midnight blue variation 4 (Hex: #132343)
Midnight blue variation 5 (Hex: #122246)
Midnight blue variation 6 (Hex: #012345)
Midnight blue variation 7 (Hex: #132232)
Midnight blue variation 8 (Hex: #123543)
Midnight blue variation 9 (Hex: #133553)
Midnight blue variation 10 (Hex: #000062)

[edit] See also

List of colors

v • d • e Shades of blue
Air Force blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Blue	Cerulean	Cerulean blue	Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Dark blue

Denim	Dodger blue	Egyptian blue	Electric blue	Han Purple	Indigo	International Klein Blue	Light blue	Maya Blue	Midnight blue	Navy blue

Periwinkle	Persian blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue	Steel blue	Ultramarine