Washington Post article on Nike's version of Michigan maize
The Washington Post has a brief article today on the version of maize that Nike will bring (or bring back) to Michigan.
Title: "Farewell, maize: Nike introduces a brand-new shade of yellow to Michigan."
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2016/07/20/farewell-m…
EDIT: The first commenter (not me, I swear) to the WaPo article: "It's not maize."
So the debate continues...
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So Jordan is giving us PMS7406. What did Addidas use? Did colors have numbers back in the dinosaur days of Bo and Harbaugh-the-QB? If so, what was it?
I believe Adidas used SUN 003A (Pantone 108C):
Left: Sun, Right: Maize
And in isolation, that (Pantone 108C) doesn't look like highlighter yellow. Was that (the highlighter) the from previous apparel contract?
I think Adidas used a few slightly different shades early on but settled on Sun for the majority of the contract. Most of my Adidas apparel looks like Sun to my eye, but I do have one older shirt that looks more orange-ish.
Pantone 108C looks much better.
BTW, it is not the highlighter yellow. That was mostly a basketball thing late in the contract.
What Michigan used in the '90s is also closer to Pantone 108C. The new color has no precedent on a Michigan uniform. Only an Iowa uniform.
Well as it turns out, Iowa actually lists 108 as one of their official colors. From their style guide:
"Uncoated papers: PMS Yellow 115 or 108
Coated and matte coated papers: PMS Yellow 116 or 109"
As a bonus, the menus on the style guide itself use at least 2 different RGB yellows, which goes against the guide. Ha!
What Woodson, Howard and Harbaugh wore is WAY more like Panton 108C than it is this new color. You can make allt the press releases you want about the colors looking like Woodson and Howard, but if it is the yellow color that has been released so far, it is a total fiction.
This blog has a bug up it's @$$ about a color that the football team never actually wore. Yeah, the yellow color got WAY too highligher late in the Adidas contract, for sure. But this orangy-maize color has not been a part of the football uniform at any time since color TV has been around.
does your daughter like?
PMS7406 & amarillo don't exactly role off the tongue.
not a fan of the jumpman logo either, but i'm old.
on the other hand, if Nike made jumpman curling apparel, i'd buy it in a heart beat!
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Just wait for the server-melting "blue" thread.
http://www.helmethut.com/College/Michigan/michigan.html
This is the yellow we wore under Bo, and this is what we should STILL be wearing:
Game worn helmet from the early 70's:
I don't know where this blog came up with the B.S. myth that we used to wear a different color yellow. We didn't. This was our yellow for DECADES with only minor changes. Yes, Adidas made it too highligher. But this is what we need to go back to. THIS is Michigan. Or at least it was for ever and ever. I don't know what this orange-yellow West Virginia crap is.
Absolutely. A million upvotes for you.
Accordnig to Encycolorpedia.com, PMS 7406 has a RGB equivalent of R 227, G 186, B 18 and a HEX humber of e3ab12 (http://encycolorpedia.com/e3ba12). This dark mustard yellow is even darker than what the folks at Rowan University call "Rowan gold," which is also called PMS 7406 nut has an RGB of R 227, G 213, B 28. Try these colors on your monitor and see what you think.
I haven't seen anything so dark and dreary since the Notre Dame and Georgia Tech golds of the 1960s. I really hope the uniforms don't turn out to be so drained of life that even the wing pattern on the helmets no longer dazzles anyone.
Hope I'm wrong abut this, but Howard and Woodson did not wear a maize that looks anything like this. Maybe Harmon did.