Midnight blue is a dark shade of blue, close to black, that was named for its darkness. Midnight blue is the color of a vat full of Indigo dye; therefore, midnight blue may also be considered a dark shade of indigo. There are two different shades of midnight blue—the X11 color and the Crayola color.
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Midnight blue | ||
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Hex triplet | #191970 | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (25, 25, 112) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (240°, 78%, 44%) |
Source | X11 | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color midnight blue.
This is the X11 web color midnight blue.
Dark Midnight Blue | ||
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Hex triplet | #003366 | |
RGBB | (r, g, b) | (0, 51, 102) |
HSV | (h, s, v) | (210°, 100%, 40%) |
Source | Crayola | |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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At right is displayed the color dark midnight blue.
This is the color called midnight blue in Crayola crayons.
Midnight blue has been an official Crayola color since 1958;
before that, since having been formulated by Crayola in 1949, it
was called Prussian
blue.
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