Dodger Blue Colors

Lore & Background

Founded in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, the team joined the NL in 1890 as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and used other names before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932. The Dodgers broke the baseball color line in 1947 with the debut of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the Major Leagues since 1884. From the 1940s through the mid-1950s, the Dodgers had a fierce crosstown rivalry with the New York Yankees. The clubs have faced each other in the World Series a record 12 times, with the Dodgers losing the first five matchups before winning the franchise's first title (and only one in Brooklyn) in 1955. After 68 seasons in Brooklyn, Dodgers owner and president Walter O'Malley moved the franchise to Los Angeles before the 1958 season. The team played their first four seasons at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before moving to their current home of Dodger Stadium in 1962. The Dodgers found immediate success in Los Angeles, winning the 1959 World Series. Success continued into the 1960s; their ace pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale helped win titles in 1963 and 1965. In 1956, Don Newcombe became the first player to win the Cy Young Award and be named NL MVP in the same season. In 1981, rookie pitcher Fernando Valenzuela became a sensation and led the team to a championship; he remains the only player to win the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards in the same season. The Dodgers were once again victorious in 1988, upsetting their heavily favored opponent in each series and becoming the only franchise to win multiple titles in the 1980s. The Dodgers later made 12 postseason appearances in a 17-year span, and they ended the championship drought in 2020. Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani joined the Dodgers in 2024. With Ohtani, the Dodgers won consecutive World Series titles in 2024 and 2025, accomplishing a feat not seen since the Yankees' three-peat from 1998 to 2000.

In Their Own Story

In 1989, Paul Raveling worked at USC's Information Sciences Institute, focused on 'tuning' colors so they displayed correctly on computer monitors. He proposed a major update to the X11 user interface system, which included a new color named 'dodgerblue.' At that time, the tuning was performed on HP monitors, and Raveling noted the results looked very good then. However, he observed that monitors later standardized on different gamma corrections, meaning the original web color does not perfectly match current displays. The current standard RGB color space was defined in 1996, seven years after 'dodgerblue' was first added to the database. Despite these technical shifts, the name remains a standard for programmers writing code.

Reader's Guide

It does not mention 'Dodger Blue' as a color name, nor does it provide any RGB or hex values for the team's colors. The article is silent on the distinction between the uniform blue and any web color.

Did You Know?

• The Dodgers broke the baseball color line in 1947 with the debut of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the Major Leagues since 1884.
• The Dodgers have won eight World Series championships and a record 25 National League pennants.
• The Dodgers' ace pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale helped win titles in 1963 and 1965.
• Fernando Valenzuela remains the only player to win the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards in the same season (1981).
• Shohei Ohtani joined the Dodgers in 2024, and with him the Dodgers won consecutive World Series titles in 2024 and 2025.