Cadet grey

Cadet grey (sometimes spelled cadet gray in parts of the United States) is a somewhat blue-greyish shade of the color grey. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a color name in English was in 1912. Before 1912, the word cadet grey was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform.

Variations

Cadet blue

Displayed at right is the greyish-blue web color cadet blue.

The first recorded use of cadet blue as a color name in English was in 1892.

In 1987, cadet blue was formulated as one of the X11 colors, which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 web colors.

Star command blue

Displayed at right is the color star command blue.

This color was apparently formulated as an impression of the color that commissioned officers in a fictional space navy would wear.

Cadet

Displayed at right is the color cadet, a dark shade of cadet grey.

The first recorded use of cadet as a color name in English was in 1915.

Space cadet

Displayed at right is the color space cadet.

Space cadet is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color "space cadet" was formulated in 2007.