Maroon (color)

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Maroon is a dark brownish to purplish red color.

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

1 Maroon (HTML/CSS)
2 Etymology
3 Dark red
4 Rich Maroon (Maroon (X11))
5 Bright Maroon
6 Maroon in human culture
7 See also
8 References

Maroon (HTML/CSS)

Maroon
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Hex triplet		#800000
sRGB^B	(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.

Etymology

Maroon is derived from French marron ("chestnut"). ^[3]

Dark red

Dark red
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Hex triplet		#8B0000
sRGB^B	(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.

Rich Maroon (Maroon (X11))

Rich Maroon
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Hex triplet		#B03060
^B	(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.

Bright Maroon

Bright Maroon
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Hex triplet		#C32148
^B	(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.

Maroon in human culture

Ethnography

Maroons are the descendants of runaway slaves in the Americas.

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.

Flags, the study of which is called Vexillology

Maroon and white are the colors of the flag of the Republic of Latvia.

References

^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Maroon: Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample L7
^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
^ maroon. Princeton WordNet.

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