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Maroon

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Maroon (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Small Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell<ref>Australian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition (2004). Oxford University Press. Template:ISBN</ref>) is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word Template:Wikt-lang, meaning chestnut.<ref># Cambridge English Dictionary (online). "maroon is red!!!".

  1. Webster's New World Dictionary of American English, 3rd College Edition, (1988). "A dark brown".
  2. Random House College Dictionary (1975). "a dark brownish".

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Terms describing interchangeable shades, with overlapping RGB ranges, include burgundy, claret, mulberry, and crimson.

Different dictionaries define maroon differently. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red.<ref>Template:Cite Cambridge Dictionary</ref> Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red.<ref>Template:Cite Dictionary.com</ref> The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish-crimson or claret colour,"<ref>Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 1993 edition</ref> while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="css3-color"/>

EtymologyEdit

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The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.<ref>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</ref>

In cultureEdit

Religion

National symbols

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  • 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Politics

Military

  • The distinctive maroon beret has been worn by many airborne forces around the world, starting with the British Parachute Regiment (nicknamed the "Maroon Machine") in 1942.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Business

  • Maroon is the signature color of the Japanese private rail company Hankyu Railway, decided by a vote of women customers in 1923.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.

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  • Maroon and Gold are the official school colors of Boston College.<ref name=":0" />
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Sports
Sports teams often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as a result, many have received the nickname "Maroons."

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  • Heart of Midlothian F.C. have played in predominantly maroon colours since 1877, although they had maroon badge and trimmings in their first kit from their formation in 1874.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Official colour of Italian association football team Torino F.C. Club's fans are known as I Granata (the Maroons in Italian).
  • Official colour of Argentina's association football team Club Atlético Lanús (Los Granates).
  • Maroons was the official nickname of the athletic teams representing Mississippi State College, now Mississippi State University from 1932 until 1961 when it was officially changed to the Bulldogs. Bulldogs had been used as an unofficial nickname as far back as 1905.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Commercial variations of maroonEdit

Maroon (Crayola)Edit

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The color designated as maroon in Crayola crayons since 1958 (when it was renamed from dark red) is a bright medium shade of maroon halfway between brown and rose.

Rich maroon (maroon (X11))Edit

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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 maroonEdit

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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 redEdit

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The web color dark red is displayed in the adjacent color table.

UP MaroonEdit

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

See alsoEdit

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