MAROON (COLOR)

'Maroon' is a color related to dark red. Although conceptually a color mixture, it can be regarded as a dark (and possibly also desaturated) shade of red. Derived from French ''marron'' ("chestnut"), it didn't become a color-word in English until ''ca.'' 1791.

Contents

National colors

School colors

Sport

See also

Bibliography

References

National colors

★ Maroon and white are national colors of Republic of Latvia.

★ The Portugal national football team traditionally wore maroon uniforms.

School colors

Maroon is a popular color for school identification in the U.K, Canada, Sri Lanka and the United States. At the college or university level, schools using maroon include:

★ Colgate University, maroon and gray

★ Morehouse College, maroon and white

★ University of Massachusetts, maroon and white

★ Boston College, maroon and gold

★ Fordham University, maroon and white

★ Nalanda College, Sri Lanka, maroon and silver

★ Logan Park High School, maroon and black

★ Ananda College, Sri Lanka, maroon and gold

★ Campbellsville University, maroon and white

★ University of Chicago, specifically a shade known as "Chicago maroon" and white

★ Loyola University Chicago, maroon and gold

★ McMaster University, maroon and gray

★ Mississippi State University, maroon and white

★ University of Minnesota, maroon and gold

★ Virginia Tech, Chicago maroon and burnt orange

★ Roanoke College, maroon and gray; the school's nickname is also the "Maroons"

★ Texas A&M University,the aggies, maroon and white (sometimes gray) ^[2]

★ Lake Worth High School, Florida, maroon and white

★ Alabama A&M University, maroon and white

★ Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, maroon and gold

★ Davenport University, maroon and gold

★ University of the Philippines, maroon and green; the school's nickname is also the "UP Fighting Maroons"

★ Digipen, Redmond, Washington, maroon

★ Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - Gryffindor (movies)- maroon and gold

★ It is also the color of the Air Force Pararescue beret.

★ University of South Carolina Aiken Campus, Pacers, maroon and white

★ Southern Illinois University, maroon and white/black

★ Ramapo College of New Jersey, maroon, white and black

★ Susquehanna University, Pennsylvania, maroon and orange

★ The City School, Pakistan, maroon and white

★ Trinity University (Texas), maroon and white

★ Federal Government College, Port Harcourt Nigeria (F.G.C.PH) maroon and white

★ New Britain High School, Connecticut, maroon and gold

★ Plano Senior High School, Texas, Maroon and White

★ Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, maroon and white

★ University of Ottawa, "garnet" and grey. Garnet, being a shade of maroon.

★ Ivanna Eudora Kean High School, maroon and gold

★ Radford College, canberra australia

Sport

★ Queensland state rugby league team wear predominately maroon.

★ Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, maroon and white.

★ Heart of Midlothian Football Club, maroon and white.

★ Torino Football Club, maroon and white.

★ Peterborough Petes, maroon and white.

See also

★ List of colors

Bibliography

See studies by C. Robinson (1969) and R. Price (1976, 1979).

References

1. W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
2. Texas A&M University Collegiate Licensing