I chose official maize before seeing any labels.
Real recognize real.
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Ain't nothing like the real thing.
FFCB05
Depending on your LED technology and what percent of RedGreenBlue colors you screen can reproduce. FFE100 looks like the right maize to me though...
We SHOULD be lighter than Iowa - they are "gold" (as is USC, Minny, Cal, etc.) "Maize" should be more yellow than gold. It just objectively looks better against dark blue.
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The noodle looks more like official maize compared to the scoreboard.
I swear, I'm gonna have a heart attack. The BEST "maize" is lighter and brighter than either the block M in the photo or on the "noodle."
Look, be careful about judging colors in sunshine. The angle of the sun changes the shade, darkening it as the sun sets. The best way to gauge the maize Michigan players have worn for decades is to look at original color photos of games played under leaden skies. It's the color of Howard or Woodson streakimg toward the end zone past guys in scalet and gray (and sliver, white, black, green, and brown.)
When I was an undergrad, a guy on my dorm floor knew a guy who worked in equipment. He boosted a Michigan jersey. I saw up close what I had seen from the stands--the brightest, lightest yellow I have ever seen, against a background that looked like a dark royal blue sapphire. It was dazzling.
Let's keep it that way.
Maize kind of gave things away somewhat. would have been better to have the blue with a white background.
Are you people kidding me? If the athletic department actually took seriously the poll that's emerging, it would end up up-ending one of the great traditions in college sports. The top two leading responses favor colors that are mundane and hideous at the same time, and as far from traditional maize as I can imagine.
I have been watching Michigan teams since I was in high school in the 60s and an undergrad in the early 70s. Michigan maize is the color of steamed sweet corn, a color that "pops" when contrasted with lapis lazuli--NOT that insipid shade of feed corn other teams wear. Maize is NOT Iowa yellow-orange-gold. It is NOT West Virginia or Cal "gold." It is NOT Delaware whatever-that-color-is. It IS such a pure yellow it almost seems illuminated from within.
If we want to be confused with every other team and do not want uniforms as distinctive as our tradition, then go ahead and change the colors from maize and lapis lazuli to "blue and gold." If MIchigan loses its distinctive colors, it'll have one fewer alum to disappoint, because I'm going to move to Europe and follow team bocce ball.
Exactly!!
There was a recent video of Durkin wearing a Michigan shirt, standing in front of Tom Harmon's 1940's uni.
Guess what? The colors were substantially the same. The colors in his shirt were brighter, but they were pretty much the same tint.
Michigan's maize never was, and never will be, orangy Iowa yellow.
Our colors are unique.
I was in Rome once and I saw what I recognized as the "Michigan" maize on the back of a shirt some guy was wearing. I yelled out "Go Blue!", and sure enough he turned around and shouted "Go Blue!".
This was in Rome, Italy. Just based on the tint of the yellow on his shirt. Try doing that if you are a Cal fan.
I don't want to be just another Cal / Navy / Toledo / WVU look-alike. Michigan's maize is unique.
KEEP MICHIGAN MAIZE UNIQUE!
Absolutely right. The maize has NOT changed in 50 years. Leave it alone!
FECF200.
It "pops" without being too highlighter-y.
The more orangy ones will make us look like Navy.
The last one is too pale.
BTW, which one of these is closest to Nike's "pattened" yellow?
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The dayglo yellow, "maize". Especially with a real Navy Blue.
I dunno.
I've been around since Bob Timberlake, I don't know what the hell Maize is supposed to look like
I don't think anybody does, check out the following link.
Bob went on to play with the Giants. He was in A2 long before Slick Slade and even Dave ("Brownie") Brown.
I saw the shade of yellow MIchigan wore in the mid-sixties. The front half of the pants was the closest to yellow-gold I ever saw on a MIchigan team. It was the traditional sort of material that didn't stretch. The back half of the pants, owing to the "Spandex" material, was the bright "washed-out" yellow so many of our younger alumni seem to diss reflexively.
The ONLY thing Brandon did right was remember the color of the pants he wore on the sideline. They were Michigan's true maize--not what the "poll" says maize looks like.
I'm telling you guys--going to an "oranger" maize is gonna come back and bite us, someday, somehow. You don't mess with 50 years of tradition--not while the alums who've been around that long are still alive.
Please--our blue is not Navy! It's lapis lazuli--a sort of deep Royal. It's not Penn State, or Illinois, or Syracuse, or (especially) Notre Dame blue. It's a tad lighter but also richer, not as flat and not so easily confused with black.
I'm hopeful the athletic department has people following the Michigan blogs and noticing things like this. It seems in their best interest to know what the fans want for things like this. It's not like this is going to impact wins and losses, but it seems like choosing a color the fans want is an easy way to earn goodwill with the fans.
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I'm curious to know the source of the "Official Maize" in the poll; because, as user Rasmus ponted out, the school officially lists:
R255/G204/B51 // Hex FFCC33 // Pantone 7406C (dark Maize)
R246/G213/B101 // Hex F6D565 (light Maize)
Link: https://vpcomm.umich.edu/brand/style-guide/design-principles/colors
I like, and chose, FFCB05, but FFCB19 is closer (by RGB settings) to what the school says is the official Maize.
Does the Athletic Department, or football in particular, have different standards than the rest of the university?
Just curious ... Go Blue!!!
I found FFCC00 a few years back listed as the Michigan Maize.
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As in, who made that color the official Maize? Also, when was the last time our Football team actually used this color?
They have never used it.
Photos such as those on Google Images show the color of maize varies considerably. So there's really no such thing as "real maize" from the standpoint of color.
The important question for me has to do with distinctiveness. No one else wears unis with the brighter/paler shade that Michigan players have worn since the '60s. (Oregon comes closest.) Do we really want to look like everyone else who wears blue and "yellow"?
Going to an "oranger" shade will not help the blue, by the way. The problem with the blue is that we get it too dark. It's not navy--it's lapis lazuli, a sort of "deep royal." If you want a better blue, don't make it look like Penn State's or Notre Dame's blue.
Please, please leave the "maize" alone. My father was buried in maize (the correct shade) and blue. I don't want him spinning in his grave--my mom's lying on top of him...
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