Navy blue

Navy
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Navy blue is an especially dark shade of the color blue. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by officers in the Royal Navy since 1748 and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world.

When this color, taken from the usual color of the uniforms of sailors, originally came into use in the early 1800s, it was initially called marine blue, but the name of the color soon changed to navy blue. ^[2] The first recorded use of Navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840. ^[3]

Contents 1 Navy blue in human culture 2 References 3 See also 4 References

Navy blue in human culture

Clothing

• A blazer, which is usually colored navy blue, is a special type of sportcoat with brass buttons that is often worn at special occasions such as at graduations, when dining at gourmet restaurants, or when yachting.

Computers

• The color navy was on the original 16 HTML/CSS colors initially formulated for standardized computer display in the late 1980s.

Military

• In the US Navy and the Canadian Navy, many uniforms which are called navy blue (e.g. Working Blues and Service Dress Blues) Canada (uniforms 1, 1A, 2B, 3, 3A, 3B (winter), 3C) are such a dark shade of navy blue that they appear black (see Uniforms of the United States Navy), especially under artificial indoor lighting, which often tends toward the yellow part of the spectrum.

Music

• Navy Blue is the name of a CD by Diane Renay (all the songs on the CD are about sailors). ^[4]
• NAVY BLUE is the title of a single by Rina Aiuchi which was related on 3 October 2001

Sexuality

• In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a navy blue bandana means that one's fetish is anal intercourse. ^[5]

Sports

• Some people mistake navy blue for black, especially when concerning clothing, most notably the navy blue pinstripes of the New York Yankees home uniform.

References

1. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 168 Discussion of color Navy blue
3. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 103; Color Sample of Navy blue: Page 131 Plate 40 Color Sample E11
4. ^ Diane Renay’s website:
5. ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114

See also

• List of colors
• Air force blue

References

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