List of U.S. state colors


This is the official list of each state's colors.

Arizona

Arizona's official colors are:
They were adopted in 1915.

California

California's official colors are:
  • Blue
  • Gold
First used by the University of California, Berkeley in 1875, and officially adopted by the state in 1951, blue represents the sky and gold represents the California Gold Rush.
The colors are defined by several different standards in law:
References:

Delaware

Delaware's official colors are:
Further, "colonial blue and buff, are designated by the Textile Color Card Association of the United States, Inc., New York, as 'arno blue' Cable No. 10663, and 'golden beige' Cable No. 10781 respectively; the color shades having been determined by Colorimetric Specifications of the National Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce, in Test No. 2, 1/140565, dated November 18, 1954, which is on file with the Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware."

Hawaii

Hawaii does not have known official colors for the entire state. However, Hawaii has legislated an official color for each of its eight main islands:
  • Red
  • Pink
  • Golden yellow
  • Purple
  • Green
  • Orange
  • White
  • Gray

Indiana

Indiana's official colors are:
  • Blue
  • Gold

Louisiana

Louisiana's official colors are:
  • Blue
  • White
  • Gold
They were adopted in 1972.

Maryland

Maryland does not have known official state colors. Maryland's widely used unofficial colors are:
  • Red
  • White
  • Black
  • Gold
The colors come from the state flag, which in turn uses the Baltimore and Crossland crests of the Calvert family. Maryland flag imagery are used extensively in official government branding.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts's official colors are:
  • Blue
  • Green
  • Cranberry
They were adopted in 2005. The colors represent Cape Cod Bay that the Pilgrims sailed over, the Connecticut River Valley and the Berkshire mountains, and the state's cranberry industry which once produced 70 percent of the world's crop

Minnesota

Minnesota does not have known official state colors.
Minnesota proposed in 2016 to make its official color
  • Purple
in honor of the musician Prince; however, the motion did not succeed.

Nevada

Nevada's official colors are:
  • Silver
  • Blue
Blue stands for Lake Tahoe and the mountain bluebird, while silver stands for the granite of the Sierra Nevada and the silver country of northern Nevada.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire does not have known official state colors.
New Hampshire proposed in 2013 to make the colors
  • Orange
  • Red
  • Yellow
its official state colors; however, the motion did not succeed.

New Jersey

New Jersey's official colors are:
Using the Cable color system developed by the Color Association of the United States, Jersey Blue was defined as Cable No. 70087; Buff was defined as Cable No. 65015. The Office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey gives the blue and buff color hexadecimal equivalents as #2484C6 and #E1B584, respectively.

New York

New York does not have known official state colors in law, but does define specific color shades in their official branding guide:
  • Dark Blue
  • Light Blue
  • Gold

North Carolina

North Carolina's official colors are:
  • Red
  • Blue
Specifically, the same shades "appearing in the North Carolina State flag and the American flag."

Ohio

Ohio does not have known official state colors in law, but does define specific color shades in their official branding guide, inspired by the Flag of Ohio:

Oklahoma

Oklahoma's official colors are:
  • Green
  • White

Oregon

Oregon's official colors are:
  • Navy blue
  • Gold
They were adopted in 1959.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania does not have known official state colors.
No official state colors are listed on the Commonwealth's State Symbols webpage, and no resolution or legislation designating state colors is known to exist.
Some sources erroneously cite blue and gold due to their prominence on the state license plate and the state flag, but these colors are coincidentally predominant on many current and historical US state license plates and on most blue US state flags, including Pennsylvania's and at least 19 others.)

South Carolina

South Carolina's official color is:
  • Indigo blue
It was adopted in 2008.

Vermont

Vermont does not have known official state colors.
Vermont proposed in 2007 to make the colors
  • Green
  • Gold
its official state colors; however, the motion did not succeed.

Washington

Washington does not have known official state colors.
No official state colors are listed the state legislature's State Symbols webpage nor in Chapter 1.20 of the Revised Code of Washington. Some sources list dark green and gold/yellow, the two colors specified for the flag by law since 1925.

West Virginia

West Virginia's official colors are:
They were adopted in 1963.

Wyoming

Wyoming does not have known official state colors.
Wyoming proposed in 2003 to make the colors
  • Brown
  • Yellow
its official state colors in honor of the University of Wyoming Cowboys 1980 football uniforms; however, the motion did not succeed.