Yale Blue

Other uses[edit]

Yale Blue is one of the two official colors of Indiana State University,^[6] the University of Mississippi,^[7] and Southern Methodist University.^[8]


Yale Blue is an official color of the University of California, Berkeley, adopted in 1868 by the university's founders, who were mostly Yale graduates.^[9] However, UC Berkeley uses a slightly different shade, Pantone 282  , from that adopted by Yale.^[10] The "Pomona Blue" (Pantone 2935  ^[11]) used by Pomona College is similar to Yale Blue and is a reference to the role of Yale alumni in the college's founding.^[12]


The color is similar to Duke University's Duke Blue   as both are derived from prussian blue, where Pantone 289 remains an acceptable approximation.^[13]


The official color "DCU Blue" of Dublin City University is Pantone 289  , very close to Yale Blue, but with no acknowledged connection.^[14]


The zine produced by Yale's campus radio station WYBC is named Relatively Dark Blue Neither Purple Nor Green in reference to Gambell's description of the color.^[15]