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LSU's official colors are Royal Purple and Old Gold. This is LSU's second choice of colors with the first official school colors being blue and white. [10] The first association of LSU with the Royal Purple and Old Gold colors was in 1883 when the LSU Corps of Cadets was presented a flag by a ladies' organization in Baton Rouge. [2]
Electric blue is a color whose definition varies but is often considered close to cyan, and which is a representation of the color of lightning, an electric spark, and the color of ionized argon gas; it was originally named after the ionized air glow produced during electrical discharges, though its meaning has broadened to include shades of blue that are metaphorically "electric" by virtue of ...
Purple is one of the least used colors in vexillology and heraldry.Currently, the color appears in only five national flags: that of Dominica, Spain, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia).
Magenta is not part of the visible spectrum of light. Magenta is an extra-spectral color, meaning that it is not a hue associated with monochromatic visible light.Magenta is associated with perception of spectral power distributions concentrated mostly in two bands: longer wavelength reddish components and shorter wavelength blueish components.
The doctoral hood of the California Institute of Technology.Note the blue velvet trim indicating philosophy; for degrees other than the Ph.D., the trim's color corresponds to the subject of the degree being awarded.
The color or name comes from the French word cerise, meaning "cherry". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of cerise as a color name in English was in The Times of November 30, 1858. [2] This date of 1858 as the date of first use of the color name is also mentioned in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color. [3]
The color of deepest mourning among medieval European queens was white. In 1393, Parisians were treated to the unusual spectacle of a royal funeral carried out in white, for Leo V, King of Armenia, who died in exile. [23] This royal tradition survived in Spain until the end of the 15th century.
The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value , and chroma (color purity), spaced uniformly in three dimensions in the elongated oval at an angle shaped Munsell color solid according to the logarithmic scale which governs human perception. In order for all the colors to be spaced ...