Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue named for its resemblance to the apparently blue color of a moonlit night sky around a full moon. 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.
| Midnight Blue | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #191970 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (25, 25, 112) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (240°, 78%, 44%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (16, 49, 266°) |
| Source | X11 |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid blue |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.
| Midnight Blue (Crayola) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #003366 |
| sRGB B (r, g, b) | (0, 51, 102) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (210°, 100%, 40%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (21, 42, 253°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep blue |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.
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Maroon is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".
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