Dodger Blue Colors

The blue that bleeds through history and code.

Dodger blue is a rich bright tone of the color azure named for its use in the uniform of the Los Angeles Dodgers. It is also a web color used in the design of web pages. The web color is not used in the Dodgers' uniform but it rather resembles the lighter blue used throughout Dodger Stadium.

Lore & Background

The Dodgers were never referred to as wearing Dodger Blue during their time in Brooklyn, although some now refer to them as representing 'True Dodger Blue'. The concept originated by Tommy Lasorda who popularized it with his saying 'Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue.' Lasorda managed the franchise in Los Angeles for 20 years from 1977 to 1996, and was on the player roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers, though he played for them only very briefly.

Reader's Guide

The actual blue that the Dodgers currently wear is RGB-hex #005A9C. It is a shade of royal blue. Regarding the web color's RGB values, Paul Raveling notes that 'The color tuning was done on HP monitors and the colors turned out very good then. The catch is that since then, monitors seemed to have standardized on different gamma corrections.' The current standard RGB color space was defined in 1996, seven years after 'dodgerblue'.