Maroon (color)
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Maroon is a dark brownish to purplish red color.
The first recorded use of Maroon as a color name in English was in 1789. [1]
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[edit] Maroon (HTML/CSS)
| Maroon | ||
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| Hex triplet | #800000 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (128, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (0°, 100%, 50%) |
| Source | HTML/CSS[2] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the web color color called maroon in HTML/CSS.
[edit] Etymology
Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut"). [3]
[edit] Dark red
| Dark red | ||
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| Hex triplet | #8B0000 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (139, 0, 0) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (0°, 100%, 56%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Displayed at right is the web color dark red.
[edit] Rich Maroon (Maroon (X11))
| Rich Maroon | ||
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| Hex triplet | #B03060 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (176, 48, 96) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (333°, 65%, 42%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color rich maroon, i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names, which is much brighter and more shaded toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above.
See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML/CSS and X11.
[edit] Bright Maroon
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| Hex triplet | #C32148 | |
| B | (r, g, b) | (195, 33, 72) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (345°, 75%, 38%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color bright maroon, i.e., the color that was designated as maroon in Crayola crayons beginning in 1949. It is a medium shade of maroon halfway between red and rose.
[edit] Maroon in human culture
- The maroon beret is the international symbol of elite airborne forces.
- Maroon is a 2000 album by Barenaked Ladies.
- Maroon is a 2001 album by The Webb Brothers.
- Maroon is a German vegan and straight edge band.
- Maroon 5 is a United States pop band.
- The Maroons are a group from Oakland, California (Lateef & Chief Xcel).
- The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps is a marching music ensemble with the colors of Maroon and Gold.
Vexillology (The study of Flags)
- Maroon and white are the colors of the flag of the Republic of Latvia.
- Maroon is the color of the Queensland state rugby league team. It also forms part of the colors of the Brisbane Broncos National Rugby League team. Maroon was officially proclaimed as Queensland's State colour in 2003, giving effect to the tradition of using maroon to represent Queensland, in particular for sporting teams. [4]
- Maroon is an official color of many NCAA universities including Mississippi State University, Virginia Tech,University of Minnesota, and Boston College.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Maroon: Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample L7
- ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
- ^ maroon. Princeton WordNet.
- ^ Queensland Government website - State colour
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