Oxford Blue (colour)
Oxford Blue is the official colour of the University of Oxford. The official Oxford branding guidelines set the definition of Oxford Blue as Pantone 282, equivalent to the hex code #002147.
With a hue code of 212, this colour is a very dark tone of azure.Usage
Oxford Blue is strongly associated with the University of Oxford, especially with the official sport teams, also called the Oxford Blue. Similar colors are also used by the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, Wycombe Wanderers F.C., Pennsylvania State University, Georgetown University, the athletic teams of the University of Michigan, and the University of California, Berkeley.Origin
The color was originally chosen by Charles Wordsworth and Thomas Garnier, two members of the 1829 Boat Race crew using "the Christ Church guernsey as our pattern, only with a broader and darker blue, instead of black stripe. Hence the origin of the 'Dark Blues'." The color itself is said to have been borrowed from Harrow Blue, which Charles Wordsworth and Charles Merivale, the creators of The Boat Race, attended. Similarly, Cambridge Blue is said to have derived from Eton blue.
