Maroon (color)

Maroon is a dark brownish red color.

The first recorded use of Maroon as a color name in English was in 1789. ^[1]

[edit] Maroon (HTML/CSS)

Maroon
— Color coordinates —
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)

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
— Color coordinates —
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)

Displayed at right is the web color dark red.

[edit] Rich Maroon (Maroon (X11))

Rich Maroon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#B03060
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(176, 48, 96)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(333°, 65%, 42%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Bright Maroon
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#C32148
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(195, 33, 72)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(345°, 75%, 38%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Ethnography

• Maroons are the descendants of runaway slaves in the Americas.

Fraternities

• Maroon is the official color of Phi Rho Eta. ^[4]

Military

• The maroon beret is the international symbol of elite airborne forces.

Music

• 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.

Religion

• Vajrayana Buddhist monks, such as the Dalai Lama, wear maroon robes.
• Theravada Buddhist monks usually wear saffron robes, but may occasionally wear maroon robes.

School Colors

• Maroon is one of the school colors of the University of Chicago. Its sports teams are called the "Maroons".
• Maroon is the official color of the University of the Philippines, the top university in the said country.
• Maroon is one of the school colors of Melbourne High School. Year 12 students also wear a maroon jumper.
• Maroon is the official school color for Harrison Trimble High School.

Sororities

• Maroon and Navy Blue are the official colors of Delta Xi Phi.
• Maroon and lavender are the official colors of Sigma Kappa. ^[5]

Sports

• 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. ^[6]
• Montreal Maroons were a professional hockey club in Canada.
• Maroon is an official color of many NCAA universities including Texas State University, Mississippi State University, Southern Illinois University, Virginia Tech, University of Minnesota, Fordham University, Texas A&M University, and Boston College.
• Maroon is the official color of A.S. Roma; an Italian professional football club from Rome.
• Maroon is the colour of Heart of Midlothian F.C.; a Scottish professional football club based in Edinburgh.

Vexillology (The study of Flags)

• Maroon and white are the colors of the Flag of Latvia and the Flag of Qatar.

[edit] See also

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Maroon (color)

• List of colors

[edit] References