Royal Blue

Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue.

It is said to have been created by a consortium of mills in Rode, Somerset, which won a competition to make a robe for Queen Charlotte, consort of King George III. In winning the prize, a business in the village invented the dye and received a certificate to sell it under that name.

Royal blue (traditional)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#002366
sRGBB (r, g, b)(0, 35, 102)
HSV (h, s, v)(219°, 100%, 40%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(16, 44, 260°)
SourceThe Mother of All HTML Colo(u)r Charts
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Royal blue (web color)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#4169E1
sRGBB (r, g, b)(65, 105, 225)
HSV (h, s, v)(225°, 71%, 88%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(48, 103, 260°)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Royal blue (Pantone)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#3D428B
sRGBB (r, g, b)(61, 66, 139)
HSV (h, s, v)(236°, 56%, 55%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(31, 58, 264°)
SourcePantone
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep purplish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Brightness

The Oxford English Dictionary defines "royal blue" as "a deep vivid blue", while the Cambridge English Dictionary defined it as "a strong, bright blue colour", and the Collins English Dictionary defines it as "a deep blue colour". US dictionaries give it as further towards purple, e.g. "a deep, vivid reddish or purplish blue" (Webster's New World College Dictionary) or "a vivid purplish blue" (Merriam-Webster).

By the 1950s, many people[who?] began to think of royal blue as a brighter color, and it is this brighter color that was chosen as the web color "royal blue" (the web colors when they were formulated in 1987 were originally known as the X11 colors). The World Wide Web Consortium designated the keyword "royalblue" to be this much brighter color, rather than the traditional darker version of royal blue.

Cree Inc. uses the term Royal Blue to describe light emitting diodes in the wavelength range 450–465 nanometers, slightly shorter than the regular blue range of 465–485 nanometers.

Variations

Queen blue

Queen blue
 
Royal Blue      Color coordinates
Hex triplet#436B95
sRGBB (r, g, b)(67, 107, 149)
HSV (h, s, v)(211°, 55%, 58%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(44, 43, 245°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Queen blue is a medium tone of royal blue.

The first recorded use of queen blue as a color name in English was in 1926. Before that, since 1661, this color had been called queen's blue.

Imperial blue

Imperial blue
 
Royal Blue      Color coordinates
Hex triplet#005A92
sRGBB (r, g, b)(0, 90, 146)
HSV (h, s, v)(203°, 100%, 57%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(37, 57, 247°)
SourcePantone
ISCC–NBS descriptorModerate blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Imperial blue is recorded as an alternative name for the traditional royal blue color above. The name is also used for a distinct, medium blue color by Pantone.

In culture

  • Royal blue is the official colour of the shirts of Birmingham City F.C., whose nickname in consequence is Blues.
  • Imperial blue is the brand colour of the Imperial College London, which is used through all College communications.
  • Royal blue is the brand colour of Yonsei University, used in its emblem, flag, and various university designs.

See also

References

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Royal Blue BrightnessRoyal Blue VariationsRoyal Blue In cultureRoyal BlueBlueKing George IIIQueen CharlotteRode, Somerset

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