cmu_1: Core colors of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA

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Core colors of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA

Description

cmu_1 provides the five core colors. of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA.

Usage

cmu_1

Format

An object of class character of length 5.

Details

The 5 core colors of Carnegie Mellon University, registered since the late 1920s, are "Carnegie red" (defined as CMYK 0/100/79/20, RGB 196/18/48, HEX #C41230), "iron gray" (defined as CMYK 0/0/0/70, RGB 109/110/113, HEX #6D6E71), "steel gray" (defined as CMYK 0/0/0/30, RGB 224/224/224, HEX #E0E0E0), "black" (defined as CMYK 0/0/0/100, RGB 0/0/0, HEX #000000), and "white" (defined as RGB 255/255/255 or HEX #FFFFFF).

cmu_1 uses the HEX color definitions.

Carnegie red should be the dominant color in your color scheme. The grays, black and white support Carnegie red. Official university collateral, uniforms, vehicles, signs and other key identity elements should always be produced using the core color palette.

Value

A named vector of colors (HEX/HTML codes of type character).

Author(s)

unicol, 2023-06-16.

Source

Color definitions are based on CMU's Color manual.

See Also

cmu_2 for secondary colors of Carnegie Mellon University; cmu_3 for campus colors of Carnegie Mellon University; seecol for viewing and comparing color palettes; usecol for using color palettes; simcol for finding similar colors; newpal for defining new color palettes; grepal for finding named colors.

Other U.S. university color palettes: asu_1, asu_2, asu_3, berkeley_1, berkeley_2, brown_1, brown_2, bu, caltech_1, caltech_2, caltech_3, cmu_2, cmu_3, columbia_1, columbia_2, columbia_3, cornell_1, cornell_2, cornell_3_accent, dartmouth_1, dartmouth_2, dartmouth_3, duke_1, duke_2, harvard_1, harvard_2, harvard_3, jhu_0, jhu_1, jhu_2, jhu_3_accent, jhu_4_gray, manchester_uni_1, manchester_uni_2, michigan_1, michigan_2, minnesotatwin_1, minnesotatwin_2, mit, monash_1, monash_2, msu, northwestern_1, northwestern_2, notredame_1, notredame_2, nyu_1, nyu_2, nyu_accent, nyu_neutral, ohio_uni_1, ohio_uni_2, pitt_1, pitt_2, princeton_0, princeton_1, princeton_2, rpi_1, rpi_2, rpi_3, stanford_1, stanford_2, stanford_3, uchicago_1, uchicago_2, uci_1, uci_2, uci_3, uci_4, ucla_1, ucla_2, ucla_3, ucla_4, ucsd_1, ucsd_2, ucsd_3, uflorida_1, uflorida_2, uflorida_3, umass_1, umass_2, umass_neutrals, upenn_1, upenn_2, vanderbilt_1, vanderbilt_2, vanderbilt_3, willamette, wm_1, wm_2, wm_3, yale, yeshiva

Examples

cmu_1
unikn::seecol(cmu_1, col_bg = "grey95", 
              main = "Core colors of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)")  # view palette

unicol documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:53 p.m.