Carolina blue
— Common connotations —
University of North Carolina
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#99BADD
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(156, 186, 227)
CMYKH	(c, m, y, k)	(47.1, 19.5, 0.0, 13.3)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(210.9°, 30.8%, 86.7%)
Source		Pantone
Color space		PMS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Carolina blue (occasionally referred to as Tar Heel blue) is the shade of blue used as one of the official school colors of the University of North Carolina. The color is sometimes referred to as light blue, sky blue, powder blue, or baby blue. The name is derived from the popular usage of "Carolina" to refer to the university. For clarity in branding and marketing, the University Licensing Office has defined the color as Pantone 278.^[1]

Use of the light blue color at UNC dates from 1795 when the Dialectic (blue) and Philanthropic (white) Societies of the university chose representative colors. Society members would wear a blue or white ribbon at university functions, and blue or white ribbons were attached to the diplomas of graduates.^[2] When football became a popular collegiate sport in the 1880s, the UNC football team adopted the light blue and white of the Di-Phi Societies as the school colors.^[3]

On many North Carolina television stations, the term is popular among weather forecasters to describe clear skies (i.e. "We'll be seeing some Carolina blue skies today"). It is also common among Tar Heel fans to suggest that God is a Tar Heel because clear skies are usually the same shade of blue as Carolina blue.

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v • d • e Shades of blue
Air Force blue	Alice blue	Azure	Baby blue	Blue	Bondi blue	Brandeis blue	Cambridge Blue	Carolina blue	Cerulean
Cobalt blue	Columbia blue	Cornflower blue	Cyan	Dark blue	Deep sky blue	Denim	Dodger blue	Duke blue	Egyptian blue
Electric blue	Eton blue	Federal Blue	Han blue	Iceberg	Indigo	International Klein Blue	Light blue	Majorelle blue	Maya blue
Midnight blue	Navy blue	Non-photo blue	Periwinkle	Persian blue	Powder blue	Prussian blue	Royal blue	Sapphire	Sky blue
St. Patrick's blue	Steel blue	Teal	Tiffany Blue	Ultramarine	Yale Blue
The samples shown above are representative only.

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