Cadet grey

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Cadet Grey
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(66, 16, 231°)
SourceISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptorGrayish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Cadet grey (spelled gray in American English) is a somewhat blue-greyish shade of the colour grey. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a colour name in English was in 1912.[1][inconsistent] Before 1912, the word cadet grey was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform.

Variations

Space cadet

Space Cadet
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(18, 29, 260°)
SourceResene
ISCC–NBS descriptorDark blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the colour space cadet.

Space cadet is one of the colours on the Resene Colour List, a colour list popular in Australia and New Zealand. The colour "space cadet" was formulated in 2007.

Cadet blue

Cadet Blue
 
X11
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight bluish green
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the greyish

web colour
cadet blue.

The first recorded use of cadet blue as a colour name in English was in 1892.[2]

In 1987, cadet blue was formulated as one of the

X11 colours, which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 web colours
.

Cadet

Cadet
 
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(43, 15, 224°)
Source[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptorGrayish blue
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the colour cadet, a dark shade of cadet grey.

The first recorded use of cadet as a colour name in English was in 1915.[3]

Military use

Uniform of a Confederate artillery corporal

The name cadet grey stems from its use in uniforms of the United States Army, in particular, cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Both armies in the

First Battle of Manassas
.

Cadet grey was previously chosen for the Army of the Republic of Texas in 1835 and 1840.[6][7]

Under the name "pike grey" (Hechtgrau) this colour distinguished the jäger regiments of the Austrian (and subsequently Austro-Hungarian) armies from 1801 until 1915.[8] In 1908 it was adopted as the universal colour of the new field service uniform for the army as a whole.[9]

See also

  • Uniforms of the Confederate States military forces
  • List of colours

References

  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191; Color Sample of Cadet Grey: Page 95 Plate 36 Color Sample C4
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191; Color Sample of Cadet Blue: Page 93 Plate 35 Color Sample A9
  3. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191; Color Sample of Cadet: Page 115 Plate 46 Color Sample A6
  4. ISBN 978-0-618-87241-1
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  5. ISBN 1-84065-257-8
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  6. ISBN 1-58477-416-9
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  7. ISBN 1-84176-593-7
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  8. ISBN 0-85045-689-4
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  9. ISBN 1-84176-594-5
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