When did we go from Maize and Blue to Yellow and Blue?
October 1st, 2008 at 4:23 PM ^
October 1st, 2008 at 4:40 PM ^
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:27 AM ^
October 1st, 2008 at 5:17 PM ^
According to thefreedictionary.com, maize is "A light yellow to moderate orange yellow." So they're fine.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:19 PM ^
October 1st, 2008 at 5:47 PM ^
the darker maize t-shirts are a newer thing aren't they? all i remember before the mid-90s were the paler ones.
or is my memory crap?
October 1st, 2008 at 6:55 PM ^
October 1st, 2008 at 7:34 PM ^
Guess this is sort of my professional field of expertise.
We've been through this before on other posts. Maize, our Maize, is more of a pale, bright yellow and not the darker gold, or what you're all referring to as 'more orange.'
As for Yinka, I don't officially know the athletic department's sanctioned Pantone number-- at least, I don't know it YET. Perhaps something to look into-- I'll see if I can get anything out of Schembechler Hall.
What I can tell you is that in terms of CMYK-- the standard four-color printing process that makes all sorts of magazines and newspapers possible-- the Maize color is pretty much straight yellow, or C-0%/M-0%/Y-100%/K-0%. To make the gold color, you'd add more and more MAGENTA to the mix. To create red, for example, you'd add equal parts yellow and magenta to create C-0/M-100/Y-100/K-0. To create Orange, you'd put the Magenta mix at about 50%... to create a nice GOLD color, then, you typically will mix about 30% with your yellow to shift it towards orange. So in truth, you all are right-- gold IS more orange.
But again, that's NOT our Maize. Look back to Bo's teams, or even Moeller's era, when the quality of photography was good enough to catch true color. Our away uniform accents were NEVER gold, but a bright, true yellow color.
That's my take, if it helps.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:56 PM ^
I have this page bookmarked:
http://www.logos.umich.edu/print.html#colors
From said page:
Intercollegiate Athletics uses:
PMS 282 |
PMS 116 (coated) PMS 109 (uncoated) |
Please realize though that this is for print. I know for a fact that the blue of the jerseys is a much darker blue when actually examined than that.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:26 PM ^
October 2nd, 2008 at 9:19 AM ^
I think this was posted a few months ago, but the REAL maize is the color you saw in the student section last Saturday. Read this link and note the colors that the University of Michigan considers official at the left hand side on the bottom :
http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/96/Fall96/mta13f96.html
Note that there is not a hint of gold or orange in the color "maize."