Royal blue
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Royal blue is any number of shades of blue.
Traditionally, dictionaries define royal blue as a deep to dark blue, often with a purple or faint reddish tinge.
| Royal blue (traditional) | ||
|---|---|---|
| <imagemap>Image:Information-silk.png|About these coordinates
rect 0 0 50 50 About these coordinates desc none</imagemap> — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #002366 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 35, 102) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (219°, 100%, 20%) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
By the mid-20th Century, with the availability of brighter dyes, most people began to think of royal blue as a brighter color, and it was this brighter color that was chosen as the web color. The W3C has designated the keyword "royalblue" to be this much brighter, rather than the traditional darker, color.
| royalblue (webcolor) | ||
|---|---|---|
| <imagemap>Image:Information-silk.png|About these coordinates
rect 0 0 50 50 About these coordinates desc none</imagemap> — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #4169E1 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (65, 105, 225) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (225°, 71%, 88%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
[edit] Royal blue in human culture
- In the film Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey, playing the main protagonist, unsuccessfully attempts to lie that a Royal Blue pen is in fact red.
- Royal blue is one of the colors of NPHC Phi Beta Sigma, its sister Sorority Zeta Phi Beta the Asian American Interest fraternity, Lambda Phi Esilon, and the Latin Sorority Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha .
- Royal Blue is the name of an album by Blues artist Koko Taylor.
- The Royal Blues are the official marching band of the Rocky Hill High School in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
- In religion, royal blue is the color of royalty to welcome the coming of a king. In Christian art, royal blue can also symbolize the night sky in which the star appeared to the Three Wise Men to announce the birth of Jesus.
- The Royal Blue was the name of a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train.
- Royal blue is the official color of the shirts of Birmingham City. It is the University of Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team's main color. It is also the dominant color for the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
- Royal blue is the official color used in the flags of the U.S.A, American Samoa, Australia, Cayman Islands, Confederate, Georgia, Hawaii, Israel, Norway, Philippines, Texas, Tuvalu and the United Kingdom.
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