Blue In NC

July 9th, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^

Personally I like Iowa's FFE100 as it gives a bit of the "orangeish" past look while being closer to the modern shades.  Second choice would be FFE200 (Adidas t-shirt - eek!).

ST3

July 9th, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^

Before voting (too late) I suggest everyone read StephenJRViking's great diary on the subject. I think we should wear a shade that is closest to what Harbaugh, Wheatley, Navarre and Denard all wore, which is something very close to FCFB25.

MCast

July 9th, 2015 at 3:52 PM ^

I went with FCFB25. I thought the official maize looked too orange. I prefer the lighter yellow, but not the one that was too light. 

 

To me maize should be the color of corn and FCFB25 represents that the most to me.

 

 

LKLIII

July 9th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^

I think the take home point here is that over 75% of the responses were one of the darker three colors. IE "Not what we are currently doing."




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somewittyname

July 9th, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^

Granted I'm slightly red green colorblind, but the "official" maize looks orange to me.

TyTrain32

July 9th, 2015 at 3:56 PM ^

Well it depends. Are we trying to appease the 40 and older masses or are we trying to attract a new generation/style to Michigan. I say we need to change with the times, make our uniforms pop a little more. I feel weird typing this because Im a traditionalist. 200 if you ask me, it looks sharpe.




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Moonlight Graham

July 9th, 2015 at 3:59 PM ^

color really is and picked the wrong one. If I would have picked the one I prefer, I would have chosen the official one. 

I own a business and I based our color scheme somewhat on my high school alma mater's "blue" and my college's (not Michigan) "gold" and pleasantly enjoy the coincidence of having a scheme that's similar to Michigan's as well. Ours is PMS 281 blue and PMS 1235 gold. 

BlueMan80

July 9th, 2015 at 3:59 PM ^

I guess I have had official maize burned into my head.  I picked it blind.  That's always been maize to me.  Got to the poll after Seth changed the labeling.

Noleverine

July 9th, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^

Looked at them on my phone and pon my computer, and all of the colors looked completely different. That is the primary confounding factor: they all look so differently in person, on various screens, etc. Unfortunately there is no way to control for that.

RuebenRileyonRye

July 9th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^

I really can't wait for football season to start. Between posts like this and the strange topics posted on the message board of late, it seems everyone is going crazy waiting to see what Harbaugh is going to do.




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ShadowStorm33

July 9th, 2015 at 4:19 PM ^

It depends. I really like the bright maize on hockey, basketball, sports like that. Football perhaps a darker shade, the highlighter doesn't look good on the players, but I really like the color for shirts in the stands, especially how it makes the student section stick out.

stormhit

July 9th, 2015 at 4:21 PM ^

I'm mostly just still confused why anyone thinks that any brightening was an Adidas development. I'm currently looking at a late era Nike t-shirt that is basically the same color as a current Adidas one, and no it's not faded, I never wear it. People were already complaining about this 10 years ago.

Seth

July 9th, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^

I'm looking into this now but Nike started the lightening and didn't make any big leaps except apparently between 1999 and 2000. However they had darker colored everything except on the pants.

What Adidas apparently did was increase the lumenance.

Umich97

July 9th, 2015 at 6:18 PM ^

I have a Nike shirt and Adidas one and they are very very similar.  The Adidas might be slightly more "highlighter", but not by much at all.  Honestly, you'd think they were the same unless you were wearing both at the same time.

 

With that said, I'm a hugh Nike fan, so glad we are going back, but I can't really support the reason being because of the shade of maize.  I liked maize then and I like it now.  The orangey-yellow....not so much.  That orangey-yellow reminds me of an era when color control wasn't as good, so if you asked for something in yellow, it could come in just about any shade.  We have much more precision with coloring these days.

wile_e8

July 9th, 2015 at 6:37 PM ^

 

The orangey-yellow....not so much.  That orangey-yellow reminds me of an era when color control wasn't as good, so if you asked for something in yellow, it could come in just about any shade.

 

I'm pretty sure most of the love for orange is coming from people remembering their cheap shirts from Steve and Barry's. Five shirts for $20, who cares if they are the right shade of yellow!