UCLA Blue is the dark blue

Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nm. It is considered one of the additive primary colours. On the HSV Colour Wheel, the complement of blue is yellow; that is, a colour corresponding to an equal...

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Color

Color or colour is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors...

 used in association with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It is described as a deep sky blue and is accompanied by a sun gold, UCLA Gold. Both are colloquially referred to as 'blue and gold'.

UCLA Blue was approved by the Chancellor of UCLA in March 2004.

The hexadecimal value of the color is 536895. UCLA Blue is a Pantone

Pantone

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UCLA Blue is used by the school's academic and administrative units, which is different from True Blue

True Blue (color)

True Blue is a tone of blue deeper than powder blue and lighter than royal blue that was developed by the UCLA Athletic Department and Adidas to be the color for all of UCLA's athletic teams starting in the 2003–2004 school year. Previously, the football team had worn powder blue while the...

adopted by UCLA Athletics. Distinguishing between academic and institutional graphic identities is common at major universities. Still, journalists often refer to the UCLA sports teams' color as "UCLA Blue".