Maroon

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Reddish-brown color

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::summary Reddish-brown color ::

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Maroon ( , Australia: ) is a brownish red color that takes its name from the French word , meaning chestnut.# 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". Marron is also one of the French translations for "brown".

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. Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red. Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish-crimson or claret colour," while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.

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.

Etymology

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Chestnut02.jpg" caption="marron}}, meaning "chestnut"." alt="A bunch of chestnuts. Maroon is derived from marron, French for chestnut."] ::

Maroon is French marron ("chestnut"), itself from the Italian marrone that also means "chestnut" and "brown" (but the color maroon in French is bordeaux, which likely stems from the French wine of the same name) from the medieval Greek maraon.

The first recorded use of maroon as a color name in English was in 1789.

In culture

Religion

National symbols

  • Maroon and white are the colors of the Flag of Qatar.
  • Flag of Phoenix, Arizona is maroon and white.
  • Maroon, gold, teal and orange are the colors of the Flag of Sri Lanka.
  • The Flag of Latvia has sometimes been called maroon and white, although the officially declared colors were red and white, and in 2009 were amended to carmine and white.
  • 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.

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. It is sometimes referred to as the "red beret."
  • Historically, maroon was the distinguishing color of the Caçadores (rifle) regiments of the Portuguese Army.

Business

  • Maroon is the signature color of the Japanese private rail company Hankyu Railway, decided by a vote of women customers in 1923. 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.

Sports

Sports teams often use maroon as one of their identifying colors, as a result, many have received the nickname "Maroons."

Commercial variations of maroon

Maroon (Crayola)

|title=Maroon (Crayola) |hex=C32148 |source=Crayola |isccname=Vivid red

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))

|title=Rich maroon [maroon (X11)] |hex=B03060 |source=X11 color names#Color name clashes |isccname=Strong red

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 maroon

|title=Mystic Maroon |hex=AD4379 |source=Crayola

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 red

|title=Dark Red |hex=8B0000 |source=X11 |isccname=Strong reddish brown

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

Notes

References

References

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  3. ''[[Australian Oxford Dictionary. Australian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition]]'' (2004). [[Oxford University Press]]. {{ISBN. 978-0-19-551796-5
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  6. {{cite Dictionary.com. maroon
  7. ''Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'', 1993 edition
  8. (8 November 2023). "Definition of MAROON".
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  10. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th Edition (1973).
  11. 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
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