Terms describing interchangeable shades, with overlappingRGB ranges, includeburgundy,claret,mulberry, and crimson.
Different dictionaries define maroon differently. TheCambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red.[5] Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red.[6] Similarly,Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red.[7] TheShorter Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish-crimson orclaret colour,"[8] while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.[9]
In thesRGB color model foradditive color representation, theweb 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 calledteal.[1]
Maroon, gold, teal and orange are the colors of theFlag of Sri Lanka.
TheFlag of Latvia has sometimes been called maroon and white, although the officially declared colors were red and white,[a] and in 2009 were amended tocarmine and white.[16]
Maroon was named as theofficial color of the state ofQueensland,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.[17]
Politics
Maroon is the color of the Dutch far-right political partyForum for Democracy.
Military
The distinctivemaroon beret has been worn by many airborne forces around the world, starting with the BritishParachute Regiment (nicknamed the "Maroon Machine") in 1942.[18] It is sometimes referred to as the "red beret."
Historically, maroon was the distinguishing color of theCaçadores (rifle) regiments of thePortuguese Army.
Business
Maroon is the signature color of the Japanese private rail companyHankyu Railway, decided by a vote of women customers in 1923.[19] In the 1990s, Hankyu planned an alternative color as it was developing new vehicles. That plan was called off following opposition by local residents.
School colors Many universities, colleges, high schools and other educational institutions have maroon as one of theirschool colors. Popular combinations include maroon and white, maroon and grey, maroon and gold, and maroon and blue.
Maroon is the official school color of theUniversity of Chicago. The school also employs light and dark gray in its official primary color palette.[28]
Sports Sports teams often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as a result, many have received the nickname "Maroons."
The University ofChicago Maroons have used the nickname (and the corresponding color) since a vote came at a meeting of students and faculty on May 5, 1894.[39]
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.[43]
Official colour of Italian association football teamTorino F.C. Club's fans are known asI Granata (the Maroons in Italian).
Official colour of Argentina's association football teamClub Atlético Lanús (Los Granates).
Official colour of Bulgaria's association football teamFC Fratria.
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.[44]
Maroons is also the common nickname for theQueensland Rugby League team when it plays against the Blues (the New South Welshmen) in an annual competition of three games known as theState of Origin series in Australia.
The color designated asmaroon inCrayola crayons since 1958 (when it was renamed fromdark red) is a bright medium shade of maroon halfway between brown androse.
Displayed in the adjacent table is the colorrich maroon, i.e.maroon as defined in theX11 color names, which is much brighter and more toned towardrose than the HTML/CSS maroon shown above.
See the chartColor name clashes in the X11 color names article to see those colors that are different in HTML/CSS and X11.
Displayed at right is the colormystic 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 ametallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.
^According to the 1994 law,Latvijas valsts karogs ir sarkans ar baltu svītru. (Latvian national flag is red with a white stripe.)[14]Sarkans is the word for "red" in Latvian, while "maroon" ispetarde.[15]
^"Par Latvijas valsts karogu" [About the national flag of Latvia] (in Latvian). The Saeima (legislature) of Latvia. 1994. Archived fromthe original on 2 March 2009.
^"Latvijas valsts karoga likums" [The Latvian national flag law] (in Latvian). The Saeima (legislature) of Latvia. 17 November 2009.Latvijas valsts karogs ir karmīnsarkans ar baltu horizontālu svītru. [The Latvian national flag is carmine-red with white horizontal stripes.]
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