Dodger blue is a rich bright tone of the color
azure
Azure may refer to:
Colour
* Azure (color), a hue of blue
** Azure (heraldry)
** Shades of azure, shades and variations
Arts and media
* ''Azure'' (Art Farmer and Fritz Pauer album), 1987
* Azure (Gary Peacock and Marilyn Crispell album), 2013
...
named for its use in the
uniform
A uniform is a variety of clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity. Modern uniforms are most often worn by armed forces and paramilitary organizations such as police, emergency services, se ...
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 (NL) West division. Established in 1883 in the city of Brooklyn ...
. It is also a
web color used in the design of web pages. The web color is not used in the Dodgers' uniform but rather resembles the lighter blue used throughout
Dodger Stadium.
History
The
Brooklyn Dodgers
The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League Baseball team founded in 1884 as a member of the American Association (19th century), American Association before joining the National League in 1890. They remained in Brooklyn until 1957, after which the ...
were never referred to as wearing Dodger Blue, 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
Los Angeles
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franchise for 20 years, and was on the player roster of the
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
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
USC
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** University of South Carolina System, the main university and its satellite campuses
**South Carolina Gamecocks, the school athletic program
* University of ...
, 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
*
List of colors
References
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Los Angeles Dodgers
Shades of azure
Shades of blue