This is the official list of each state's colors.
Further information: List of Alabama state symbols |
Alabama does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Alaska state symbols |
Alaska does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Arizona state symbols |
Arizona's official colors are:
Further information: List of Arkansas state symbols |
Arkansas does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of California state symbols |
California's official colors are:
First used by the University of California, Berkeley in 1875, and officially adopted by the state in 1951,[4] blue represents the sky and gold represents the California Gold Rush.[5]
The colors are defined by several different standards in law:[6]
References:
Further information: List of Colorado state symbols |
Colorado does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Connecticut state symbols |
Connecticut does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Delaware state symbols |
Delaware's official colors are:[7][dubious ]
Further information: List of Florida state symbols |
Florida does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Georgia state symbols |
Georgia does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Hawaii state symbols |
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:[8]
Further information: List of Idaho state symbols |
Idaho does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Illinois state symbols |
Illinois does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Indiana state symbols |
Indiana's official colors are:[9][dubious ]
Further information: List of Iowa state symbols |
Iowa does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Kansas state symbols |
Kansas does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Kentucky state symbols |
Kentucky does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Louisiana state symbols |
Louisiana's official colors are:[10][11]
Further information: List of Maine state symbols |
Maine does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Maryland state symbols |
Maryland does not have known official state colors. Maryland's widely-used unofficial colors are:
The colors come from the state flag, which in turn uses the Baltimore and Crossland crests of the Calvert family.[12] Maryland flag imagery (and in turn, the four colors of the flag, in varying shades) are used extensively in official government branding.[13][14]
Further information: List of Massachusetts state symbols |
Massachusetts's official colors are:
Further information: List of Michigan state symbols |
Michigan does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Minnesota state symbols |
Minnesota does not have known official state colors.
Minnesota proposed in 2016 to make its official color
in honor of the musician Prince; however, the motion did not succeed.[17][18]
Further information: List of Mississippi state symbols |
Mississippi does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Missouri state symbols |
Missouri does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Montana state symbols |
Montana does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Nebraska state symbols |
Nebraska does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Nevada state symbols |
Nevada's official colors are:[19][20]
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.[21][22]
Further information: List of New Hampshire state symbols |
New Hampshire does not have known official state colors.
New Hampshire proposed in 2013 to make the colors
its official state colors; however, the motion did not succeed.[23]
Further information: List of New Jersey state symbols |
New Jersey's official colors are:[24]
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.[25]
Further information: List of New Mexico state symbols |
New Mexico does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of New York state symbols |
New York does not have known official state colors in law, but does define specific color shades in their official branding guide:[26]
Further information: List of North Carolina state symbols |
North Carolina's official colors are:[27]
Specifically, the same shades "appearing in the North Carolina State flag and the American flag."[27]
Further information: List of North Dakota state symbols |
North Dakota does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Ohio state symbols |
Ohio does not have known official state colors in law, but does define specific color shades in their official branding guide,[28] inspired by the Flag of Ohio:
Further information: List of Oklahoma state symbols |
Oklahoma's official colors are:[10][29]
Further information: List of Oregon state symbols |
Oregon's official colors are:[30]
Further information: List of Pennsylvania state symbols |
Pennsylvania does not have known official state colors.
No official state colors are listed on the Commonwealth's State Symbols webpage,[33] and no resolution or legislation designating state colors is known to exist.
Some sources erroneously cite blue and gold[34] 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 "seal on a bedsheet" US state flags, including Pennsylvania's and at least 19 others.)
Further information: List of Rhode Island state symbols |
Rhode Island has no known official state colors.
Further information: List of South Carolina state symbols |
South Carolina's official color is:[35]
Further information: List of South Dakota state symbols |
South Dakota does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Tennessee state symbols |
Tennessee does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Texas state symbols |
Texas does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Utah state symbols |
Utah does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Vermont state symbols |
Vermont does not have known official state colors.
Vermont proposed in 2007 to make the colors
its official state colors; however, the motion did not succeed.[38]
Further information: List of Virginia state symbols |
Virginia does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Washington state symbols |
Washington does not have known official state colors.
No official state colors are listed the state legislature's State Symbols webpage[39] nor in Chapter 1.20 of the Revised Code of Washington (where other official symbols are designated).[40] Some sources list dark green and gold/yellow, the two colors specified for the flag by law since 1925.[41]
Further information: List of West Virginia state symbols |
West Virginia's official colors are:
Further information: List of Wisconsin state symbols |
Wisconsin does not have known official state colors.
Further information: List of Wyoming state symbols |
Wyoming does not have known official state colors.
Wyoming proposed in 2003 to make the colors
its official state colors in honor of the University of Wyoming Cowboys 1980 football uniforms; however, the motion did not succeed.[44]