Yale Blue
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Yale Blue – the dark blue color used in association with Yale University – varies with use and history. University Printer John Gambell characterized the spirit of the color as "a strong, relatively dark blue, neither purple nor green, though it can be somewhat gray. It should be a color you would call blue."[1]
The university administration defines Yale Blue as a custom color whose closest approximation in the Pantone system is Pantone 289, with Pantone 288 and Pantone 654 as related colors of higher and lower intensity.[2]
The Yale Corporation adopted blue as the university's color in 1894, after a half century during which green was associated with the university.[3]
