Midnight blue

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Midnight blue
About these coordinates
About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #003366
RGBB (r, g, b) (0, 51, 102)
HSV (h, s, v) (148°, 100%, 20%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue, close to black, that was named for its darkness. Midnight blue is close to the color of Indigo dye.

As it is a web-safe color, Midnight blue is an extremely popular color choice, showing up on various websites, including the latest version of Google's Blogger.

Historically, the traditional uniform colour of French Army officers is midnight blue. Officers (who purchased their own uniforms) normally chose midnight blue uniforms, or chose black uniforms which they called midnight blue, because they considered them smarter than the lighter shade, dark blue, used by other ranks.

Midnight blue is an official Crayola color, which was originally called Prussian blue.

The Carlton Blues, an Australian Rules Football Team wear Midnight Blue colored Jerseys. The University of Toledo (Ohio) Rockets football and basketball teams wear midnight blue and gold jerseys.

"Midnight blue" is the title of several different songs, including ones by Lou Gramm, Melissa Manchester, Megumi Hayashibara, jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell and Electric Light Orchestra.

  • Midnight blue variation 1 (Hex: #132456)
  • Midnight blue variation 2 (Hex: #123245)
  • Midnight blue variation 3 (Hex: #123456)
  • Midnight blue variation 4 (Hex: #132343)
  • Midnight blue variation 5 (Hex: #122246)
  • Midnight blue variation 6 (Hex: #012345)
  • Midnight blue variation 7 (Hex: #132232)
  • Midnight blue variation 8 (Hex: #123543)
  • Midnight blue variation 9 (Hex: #133553)
  • Midnight blue variation 10 (Hex: #000062)
  • Midnight blue variation 11 (Hex: #191970)
  Shades of blue  
Alice blue Azure Baby blue Blue Cerulean Cerulean blue Cobalt blue Cornflower blue Dark blue Denim Dodger blue Indigo
                       
International Klein Blue Light blue Midnight Blue Navy blue Periwinkle Persian blue Powder blue Prussian blue Royal blue Sapphire Steel blue Ultramarine
                       

See also: List of colors

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