Color
Cardinal has been Stanford’s official color since the University’s earliest days. Supporting colors are drawn from our campus architecture and the California landscape.
Primary Palette
Cardinal Red
- Pantone: 201C, 201U
- CMYK: 0-100-65-34
- RGB: 140-21-21
- Hex: 8C1515
Cool Gray
- Pantone: Cool Gray 11C
- CMYK: 48-36-24-66
- RGB: 77-79-83
- Hex: 4D4F53
Black
- Pantone: Process Black
- CMYK: 0-0-0-100
- RGB: 0-0-0
- Hex: 000000
Neutral Color Palette
- Pantone: 467
- CMYK: 3-12-34-10
- RGB: 210-194-149
- Hex: D2C295
- Pantone: 465
- CMYK: 7-27-55-22
- RGB: 179-153-93
- Hex: B3995D
- Pantone: 403
- CMYK: 14-18-22-42
- RGB: 146-139-129
- Hex: 928B81
- Pantone: 401
- CMYK: 8-9-14-24
- RGB: 182-177-169
- Hex: B6B1A9
- Pantone: 7527
- CMYK: 3-4-14-8
- RGB: 218-215-203
- Hex: DAD7CB
- Pantone: 5665
- CMYK: 12-3-13-8
- RGB: 199-209-197
- Hex: C7D1C5
- Pantone: 445
- CMYK: 50-28-24-65
- RGB: 77-83-87
- Hex: 4D5357
- Pantone: 405
- CMYK: 23-29-32-67
- RGB: 95-87-79
- Hex: 5F574F
Deep Tone Color Palette
- Pantone: 1817
- CMYK: 23-84-54-68
- RGB: 94-48-50
- Hex: 5E3032
- Pantone: 7526
- CMYK: 10-78-100-46
- RGB: 141-60-30
- Hex: 8D3C1E
- Pantone: 3165
- CMYK: 100-12-28-59
- RGB: 0-80-92
- Hex: 00505C
- Pantone: 561
- CMYK: 83-16-45-54
- RGB: 23-94-84
- Hex: 175E54
- Pantone: 262
- CMYK: 57-92-12-56
- RGB: 83-40-79
- Hex: 53284F
Bright Color Palette
- Pantone: 2925
- CMYK: 84-21-0-0
- RGB: 0-152-219
- Hex: 0098DB
- Pantone: 3145
- CMYK: 100-5-20-22
- RGB: 0-124-146
- Hex: 007C92
- Pantone: 334
- CMYK: 100-0-60-3
- RGB: 0-155-118
- Hex: 009B76
- Pantone: 7511
- CMYK: 5-48-93-23
- RGB: 178-111-22
- Hex: B26F16
- Pantone: 144
- CMYK: 0-52-100-0
- RGB: 233-131-0
- Hex: E98300
- Pantone: 124
- CMYK: 0-27-100-0
- RGB: 234-171-0
- Hex: EAAB00