Penn State brand colors
Penn State specifies its palette in Pantone first and publishes a hex value for only one of its four brand colors. That makes this the thinnest record in the set, and the fields below are left empty rather than filled with a conversion: a hex derived from a Pantone chip would be a guess presented as a specification.
Official site: psu.edu
Every color
| Color | Role | Hex | RGB | HSL | Pantone | CMYK | Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nittany Navy | primary | #001E44 | 0, 30, 68 | 214, 100%, 13% | 282 | -- | Fill screen |
3 further colors are named without a hex value. They are listed rather than dropped, and nothing is calculated to fill the gap.
- Beaver Blue, Pantone 287. Published as a Pantone reference only. No hex given.
- Pugh Blue, Pantone 284. Published as a Pantone reference only. No hex given.
- White Out. Named as a primary brand color with no values published.
Contrast pairs
Nittany Navy passes AA for body text on white, at 16.5 to 1.
Of 6 ordered pairs in this palette, 4 clear 4.5 to 1 for body text and 4 clear 3 to 1 for large text. Row is the text color, column is the background.
| Text color | Nittany Navy | White | Black |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nittany Navy | 16.6Nittany Navy on White, passes AA for body text | 1.3Nittany Navy on Black, fails AA for body text | |
| White | 16.6White on Nittany Navy, passes AA for body text | 21.0White on Black, passes AA for body text | |
| Black | 1.3Black on Nittany Navy, fails AA for body text | 21.0Black on White, passes AA for body text |
Sources
- Every color on this page: https://brand.psu.edu/visual-identity-standards/color-and-the-mark
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