Maroon

Maroon
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#800000
sRGBB (r, g, b)(128, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)(0°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(26, 86, 12°)
SourceHTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Maroon (US/UK /məˈrn/ mə-ROON,[2] Australia /məˈrn/ mə-ROHN[3]) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.[4] "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown".

According to multiple dictionaries, there are variabilities in defining the color maroon. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red.[5] Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red.[6] This suggests slight perceptual differences in the U.K. versus North America.[citation needed] Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red.[7] The Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish crimson (strong red) or claret (purple color) color,"[8] while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.[9]

In the sRGB color model for additive color representation, the web color called maroon is created by turning down the brightness of pure red to about one half. It is also noted that maroon is the complement of the web color called teal.[1]

Etymology

A bunch of chestnuts. Maroon is derived from marron, French for chestnut.
The word "maroon" derives from the French marron, meaning chestnut.

Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut"),[10] itself from the Italian marrone that means both chestnut and brown (but the color maroon in Italian is granata and in French is grenat), from the medieval Greek maraon.[11]

The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.[12]

In culture

Religion
National symbols
  • Maroon and white are the colors of the Flag of Qatar.
  • Flag of Phoenix, Arizona is maroon and white.
  • Maroon, gold, teal and orange are the colors of the Flag of Sri Lanka
  • The Flag of Latvia has sometimes been called maroon and white, although the officially declared colors were red and white,[a] and in 2009 were amended to carmine and white.[16]
  • Maroon was named as the official color of the state of Queensland, Australia, in November 2003. While the declared shade of maroon in sRGB is R=115, G=24, B=44, Queenslanders display the spirit of the state by wearing all shades of maroon at sporting and cultural events.[17]
Politics
Military
  • The distinctive maroon beret has been worn by many airborne forces around the world since 1942.[18] It is sometimes referred to as the "red beret."
  • Historically maroon was the distinguishing color of the Caçadores (rifle) regiments of the Portuguese Army.
Business
  • Maroon is the signature color of the Japanese private rail company, Hankyu Railway, decided by a vote of women customers in 1923.[19] In the 1990s, Hankyu planned an alternative color as it was developing new vehicles. That plan was called off following opposition by local residents
Music
School colors

Many universities, colleges, high schools and other educational institutions have maroon as one of their school colors. Popular combinations include maroon and white, maroon and grey, maroon and gold, and maroon and blue.

Sports

Sports teams often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as a result, many have received the nickname "Maroons."

Commercial variations of maroon

Maroon (Crayola)

Maroon (Crayola)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#C32148
sRGBB (r, g, b)(195, 33, 72)
HSV (h, s, v)(346°, 83%, 76%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(43, 112, 5°)
SourceCrayola
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color designated as maroon in Crayola crayons since 1949 is a bright medium shade of maroon halfway between brown and rose.

Rich maroon (maroon (X11))

Rich maroon [ maroon (X11) ]
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#B03060
sRGBB (r, g, b)(176, 48, 96)
HSV (h, s, v)(338°, 73%, 69%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(42, 82, 355°)
SourceX11 color names#Color name clashes
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed in the adjacent table is the color rich maroon, i.e. maroon as defined in the X11 color names, which is much brighter and more toned toward rose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above.

See the chart Color name clashes in the X11 color names article to see those colors that are different in HTML/CSS and X11.

Mystic maroon

Mystic Maroon
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#AD4379
sRGBB (r, g, b)(173, 67, 121)
HSV (h, s, v)(329°, 61%, 68%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(45, 66, 343°)
SourceCrayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color mystic maroon, one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

Dark red

Dark Red
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#8B0000
sRGBB (r, g, b)(139, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)(0°, 100%, 55%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(28, 94, 12°)
SourceX11
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed in the adjacent table is the web color dark red.

UP maroon

UP Maroon
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#7B1113
sRGBB (r, g, b)(123, 17, 19)
HSV (h, s, v)(359°, 86%, 48%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(26, 75, 12°)
Sourcehttps://www.colorhexa.com/7b1113
ISCC–NBS descriptorDeep reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

UP Maroon is the shade used by the University of the Philippines as its primary color.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ According to the 1994 law, Latvijas valsts karogs ir sarkans ar baltu svītru. (Latvian national flag is red with a white stripe.) [14] Sarkans is the word for "red" in Latvian, while "maroon" is petarde.[15]

References

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  2. ^ "maroon (Random House (US) & Collins (UK) dictionaries)". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  3. ^ Australian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition (2004). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-551796-5
  4. ^ Cambridge English Dictionary on-line; "maroon is red!!!"; Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, 3rd College Edition, (1988). "A dark brown". Random House College Dictionary (1975), "a dark brownish".
  5. ^ Cambridge English Dictionary on-line
  6. ^ "MAROON | Definition of MAROON by Oxford Dictionary on Lexico.com also meaning of MAROON". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on October 24, 2020.
  7. ^ "Definition of maroon | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com.
  8. ^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, 1973.
  9. ^ "Definition of MAROON". 8 November 2023.
  10. ^ "maroon". Princeton WordNet.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th Edition (1973).
  12. ^ Maerz and Paul. A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1930, Page 198; Color Sample of Maroon: Page 37, Plate 7, Color Sample L7
  13. ^ Wong, Edward (February 18, 2009). "China Adds to Security Forces in Tibet Amid Calls for a Boycott". The New York Times.
  14. ^ "Par Latvijas valsts karogu" [About the national flag of Latvia] (in Latvian). The Saeima (legislature) of Latvia. 1994. Archived from the original on 2 March 2009.
  15. ^ Turkina, Eiženija & Zitare, K. (1977). Latvian-English Dictionary (second ed.). Waverly, Iowa: Latvju Gramata (Rota Press). OCLC 3085262.
  16. ^ "Latvijas valsts karoga likums" [The Latvian national flag law] (in Latvian). The Saeima (legislature) of Latvia. 17 November 2009. Latvijas valsts karogs ir karmīnsarkans ar baltu horizontālu svītru. [The Latvian national flag is carmine-red with white horizontal stripes.]
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  19. ^ Robertson, Jennifer Ellen (1998). Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (ebook ed.). University of California Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-520-92012-5.
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  32. ^ "Our Colors". brand.missouristate.edu.
  33. ^ ISD, Littlefield (2023-08-29). "Littlefield ISD". www.lfdisd.org. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
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  35. ^ "Virginia Tech colors". Virginia Tech – History and Traditions. 2019.
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  39. ^ "From Parrots to Maroons". philstar.com.
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  43. ^ "Maroon, Maroons, and the Phoenix". Athletics.UChicago.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-01-16. Retrieved 2014-05-13.

External links

  • The dictionary definition of maroon at Wiktionary
  • Media related to Maroon (color) at Wikimedia Commons
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