Cardinal (color)

The first recorded use of cardinal as a color name in English was in the year 1698.

[2] The corresponding Pantone Matching System (PMS) color is 200, as seen in the school colors for Wisconsin, Arizona and Wesleyan, and as one of the two official colors of the Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Sigma Phi fraternities and the only official color of the sorority Alpha Omicron Pi.

However, Stanford's variant of the color is 201 C,[3] while Carnegie Mellon and Worcester Polytechnic Institute use PMS 187, Brown University uses PMS 192, Iowa State University uses PMS 186, and Ball State University uses PMS 199.

The hex triplet for the web-safe version of the color is #CC2233.

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Cardinal bird (male)
Cardinal bird (male)
The cardinal color takes its name from the color of the robes worn by cardinals.
The cardinal color takes its name from the color of the robes worn by cardinals .