State
Color: Blue & Gold
The combination of blue and gold as official colors in California
were first used as school colors by the University of California,
Berkeley in 1875. Blue represented the sky and gold the color of
the precious metal found by forty-niners in the state's hills. The
Secretary of State began using blue and gold ribbons with the state
seal on official documents as early as 1913. Secretary of State Frank
M. Jordan suggested making blue and gold the official state colors
and in 1951, the State Legislature passed legislation to that effect.