Dodger blue is a rich bright tone of the color
azure named for its use in the
uniform
A uniform is a variety of costume worn by members of an organization while usually participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency serv ...
of the
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Div ...
. It is also a
web color
Web most often refers to:
* Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
* World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system
Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:
Computing
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used in the design of web pages. The web color is not used in the Dodgers' uniform but it rather resembles the lighter blue used throughout
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is a ballpark in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a ...
.
History
The
Dodgers were never referred to as wearing Dodger Blue during their time in Brooklyn, although some now refer to them as representing "True Dodger Blue." The concept originated by
Tommy Lasorda who popularized it with his saying "Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue." Lasorda managed the franchise in Los Angeles for 20 years from 1977 to 1996, and was on the player roster of the
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...
Dodgers, though he played for them only very briefly.
In 1989, the team's famous Dodger blue was added to a color database. Paul Raveling, a software engineer who in 1989 was working at the Information Sciences Institute at
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, had been “tuning” colors to be properly displayed on computer monitors.
He proposed a major update to the list of color names that were supported by the X11 user interface system, including one called “dodgerblue.” Eventually, that list of colors would be incorporated into web browsers, which allow programmers writing HTML or CSS to type a color name instead of a code.
Uniform color
The actual blue that the Dodgers currently wear is RGB-hex #005A9C.
Regarding the web color's RGB values, Paul Raveling notes that "The color tuning was done on HP monitors and the colors turned out very good then. The catch is that since then, monitors seemed to have standardized on different gamma corrections."
The current
standard RGB color space was defined in 1996, seven years after “dodgerblue.”
See also
*
Lists of colors
These are the lists of colors;
* List of colors: A–F
* List of colors: G–M
* List of colors: N–Z
* List of colors (alphabetical)
* List of colors by shade
* List of color palettes
* List of Crayola crayon colors
* List of RAL colours
* Lis ...
References
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Shades of azure
Shades of blue