On the phone I couldn't see the labels- to my horror I picked Iowa's yellow!
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I'm so ashamed...
You are not alone.
Me too...I feel terrible
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Why isn't there a "None of the above" choice. None are highlightery enough for me.
Hi Oregon!
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!).
The Iowa one was my second fav, but who knows what I'd pick if I saw all the colors on the same type of fabric.
I took the test blind and also chose Iowa's yellow.
I'd like to see these colors contrasted with the dark blue to see how they look together though.
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.
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.
Official Maize doesn't look orange when it's with Blue. Here's the official, University-defined colors.
Yeah, that's much better. You're right, looks totally different with the blue. Thanks.
Good call WD
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Lol. I didn't believe you I had to take the image and use a color picker. Checks out. Looks unbelievably better with blue. I think it looks pretty ugly in that swatch picture up top.
Maize and Blue were made for each other
Like my old stadium blanket ... welcome home !
Like my old stadium blanket ... welcome home !
Meh, looks like Navy or Cal or a thousand different high schools. Nothing unique.
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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Doesn't really work without a blue to match and compare
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To compare?
Granted I'm slightly red green colorblind, but the "official" maize looks orange to me.
I'm somewhere around FECF200 and FEF100. Brighter, but not blinding.
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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Goddamn highlighter colors hurt my eyes. I banned yellow highlighters from my firm years ago because they gave me a headache. Blue or orange highlighters were fine. I could barely watch basketball games in HD with Adidas' atrocious color selection.
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00 and 25 are way worse, 200 isnt highlighter, at least no on my phone.
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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.
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.
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One is blindingly obvious, the other is Monkey Rodeo. I'm amazed how close it is though.
The second one. The darker shit is awful
Would have been nice to have a Michigan blue background. Ended up picking Iowa Corn. I blame my monitor's ability to reproduce colors.
Haven't drank enough water > recently took my multivitamin
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.
The official maize is by far the best.
If your favorite color is orange.
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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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.
I don't know how people like the dark yellow/orange garbage. It should be a brighter yellow like maize is...
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Official colors?
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.
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.
I have the official Fab Five shorts and no way are they the official maize. much closer to the highlighter end of the spectrum.
Look around when HDTVs came out. That changed the game
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.
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!
No kidding. You could get 5 maize shirts from Steve & Barry's and they would all be different colors of "maize".
Ironically, since we were winning, no one gave a $&@?!
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