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16 Types of Navy Blue

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Navy blue is a dark shade of blue that can look black in low light. This originates with the color of 18th century British Royal Navy uniforms. This color was in use by the British navy as early as 1748. As such, there is a long standing tradition of using navy blue in uniforms that remains in place to this day and commonly includes military, police and school uniforms. Navy blue is perceived as a solid and formal color. The following are common variations of navy blue.
Light Navy
#2f4064
Midnight Navy Blue
#182d55
Sharp Navy
#1a2d52
Navy
#000080
Navy Blue
#0c214b
Charcoal Navy
#01273f
Navy Rain Blue
#150142
Minimal Navy
#000931
Dark Navy Blue
#00022e
Dark Navy Blue #3
#0d0e0f
Dark Navy Blue #2
#000010
Glossy Navy Blue
#011447
Traditional Navy Blue
#172b42
Medium Navy Blue
#1b2b65
Deep Navy Blue
#0f154d
Nautical Blue
#01004a
The color #000080 above is an outlier that comes from web standards such as the CSS3 specification. These were originally based on the X11 standard that were defined by some programmers comparing the color of crayons with colors on their computer monitors. Some of these colors differ remarkably from the traditional shades associated with color names. Navy blue is one example of this as you can see above where the more traditional shades of navy blue are much darker.

Summary

Navy blue is traditionally a very dark blue that can look black in low light.

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