Midnight blue

For other uses, see Midnight blue (disambiguation).
Crucifixion by Matthias Grünewald, c. 1515, showing a midnight blue sky.

Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the identifiably blue color of a moonlit night sky on or near the night of a full moon. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. Midnight blue is identifiably blue to the eye in sunlight or full-spectrum light, but can appear black under certain more limited spectra sometimes found in artificial lighting (especially early 20th century incandescent). It is similar to navy, which is also a dark blue.

Variations of midnight blue

X11

Midnight Blue
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #191970
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (25, 25, 112)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (97, 78, 39, 29)
HSV       (h, s, v) (240°, 78%, 44%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

There are two major shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color. This color was originally called midnight. The first recorded use of midnight as a color name in English was in 1915.[1]

At right is displayed the color midnight blue.

This is the X11 web color midnight blue.

Dark midnight blue (Crayola)

Midnight Blue (Crayola)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #003366
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (0, 51, 102)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (95, 80, 41, 31)
HSV       (h, s, v) (210°, 100%, 40%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the dark shade of midnight blue that is called midnight blue in Crayola crayons.

Midnight blue became an official crayola color in 1958; before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1903, it was called Prussian blue.

Midnight blue in culture

Comic books

Fashion

Military

Sports

Music

Television

Car Culture

See also

References

  1. Maerz and Paul (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 199; color sample of midnight: page 103, plate 40, color sample A8.
  2. Midnight Blue
  3. School Colors University of Toledo Athletics.
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