The Color Maize
Since Nike vs. Adidas is a major topic on this blog, especially the shade of maize that each company uses, I decided that I would look into the actual shade of maize and see which company uses the correct shade. In the pictures below, you will see all the shades of yellow (maize is on the far right, second row down).
Maize is a lighter yellow that obviously resembles the color of common corn. In this next picture, you see the shade of maize that each company uses.
In my opinion, Adidas uses the correct shade of maize. Nike uses more of a sunglow, jonquil, or amber shade (when compared to the 1st picture), and adidas' use of a lighter color is closer to the correct shade of maize. Although it isn't perfect, it is closer to the correct shade than Nike's "maize."
Tell me your input on the colors used by each company
not this again
and you side with Adidas, so you're doubly wrong
Adidas can't use the color Maize - it was copyrighted by Nike. They made a new color called Sun.
Per the Michigan Daily: story link
Nike also copyrighted the color “Maize,” so Adidas actually had to make a new version of our school color, now known as “Sun” (which the volleyball team has affectionately dubbed the “highlighter” jerseys). While the switch has become progressively easier throughout the past two years, it’s come with growing pains.
They didn't copyright the color. They copyrighted the name of the color.
You can't copyright the actual color...
You can't triple stamp a double stamp.
But you can copyright the name of the color in the way it is applied. Adidas could use nike's maize but they would not be able to put the word maize or say maize and blue on anything, so in a way it was copyrighted.
Ya, and i invented the color blue.
Years ago I was sitting at dinner with an OSU athletic department employee. We got to talking about colors (e.g., why OSU's colors seem to be scarlet, gray, silver, white black, green, and brown). He said kids respond to colors. You remember the first time you saw Michigan Maize and Blue? That maize just popped off the unis. Nobody else wears our combination of colors. It's as distinctive as the winged helmet. It's what distingishes us from the Cal's and West Virginia's of the world--teams that wear Nike "maize." Get the colors right--everywhere: on unis, websites, licensed merchandise, etc.
This is going to get ugly.
So you're saying the Simpsons are the correct shade of maize...
Not really. Just comparing my reaction to this debate with Homer's reaction to Ned Flanders discussing the differences between apple cider and apple juice. Haven't had my brain quit on me just yet though.
Well, the new student shirts at M-Den are much more "amber" than in the past.
Also, a little Alice Walkerish of a title, no?
Yeah I thought so.
In these matters I trust WD and his assessments.
IBTD.
Is Oakland still in play?
I don't like to do it, but if you bring up Oakland, then King Cameltoe must make an appearance. Can't have one with the other....
please set this guy straight.
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I take it you're the sort of Oxford Blue who resides in Oxford, Ohio--not the sort who attended Oxford University and won a "blue."
You literally took the graphic I made in my thread on this from 3 months ago.
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/adidas-maize-vs-nike-maize
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I made it on MS Paint in like 3 seconds.
I'm not mad or anything. I don't even mind. I'm just pointing it out.
Well at least he put that color palette in also, otherwise he my have been given a one-way bus ticket to Bolivia.
/jk
You literally just used the fill button in paint twice.
MAIZE!!! BLAZE!!! HARBROARRRBAUGH!!! CLASH SMASH BASH SPLASH CRASH TRASH MOUSTACHE STEVE NASH!!!!!!!!!
....for after all, he predicted this thread.
in Vietnamese is: đi đi mau
And the OP should feel bad.
a thoughtful response to your question. And then I read your comment about highlighter yellow being a superior color to maize. As it is now obvious that you are completely lacking in taste, class, and most likely intelligence, I'll not be responding to your post.
Also, we've done this thread like 20 times already.
You are not good at MGoBlog dot com.
Let me get this over with now...
1. Russel athletic/jokes about 50 companies
2. Nike owns maize/no they don't (you can't own a color crowd v. you can in some respect i.e. Tiffany Blue)
3. We played better with the Nike Maize (Insert picture of 2006-2007 M maize aka the same color Adidas uses)
4. Personal preferences of Nike/UA/Adidas (add in talks of potential contract numbers)
We just got Ben Bredeson and you're talking about corn shaded colors
Yeah, but even that has inconsistencies.
The official Block M logo on MGoBlue and the logos across the internet all have #FFD90F.
The shade the University says is the official Maize is darker as it is #FFCB05.
As someone who has to enter hex/RGB codes all the time, I've noticed it quite often. I still have all the Maize in the SuperGuides as #FFF200 aka 'adidas Maize' until an official decision is made on the apparel. Re-coloring is gonna be a bitch.
and nothing like the highlighter yellow of Adidas.