Navy blue

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Navy Blue)

Navy blue
— Colour coordinates —
Hex triplet		#000080
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(0, 0, 128)
CMYK^H	(c, m, y, k)	(100, 100, 0, 50)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(240°, 100%, 50%)
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Navy blue is a colour, an especially dark shade of blue. Some people mistake navy blue for black, especially when concerning clothing, most notably the navy blue pinstripes of the New York Yankees home uniform. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by sailors in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. In the US Navy and the Canadian Navy, many uniforms which are called "blue" (e.g. Working Blues and Service Dress Blues) Canada (uniforms 1, 1A, 2B, 3, 3A, 3B (winter), 3C) are such a dark shade that they appear black (see Uniforms of the United States Navy).

In contemporary Western clothing fashion, navy blue is considered a conservative colour appropriate for men's business dress. Navy blue is the nearly universal colour of blazers and is also a favored colour for suits.

Web colours	black	silver	gray	white	red	maroon	purple	fuchsia	green	lime	olive	yellow	orange	blue	navy	teal	aqua
Web colours

					Shades of blue
Alice blue	Azure	Blue	Cerulean	Cerulean blue	Cobalt blue	Cornflower blue	Dark blue	Denim	Dodger blue	Indigo	International Klein Blue

Lavender	Midnight Blue	Navy blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Steel blue	Ultramarine	Light blue