The Color Maize

Submitted by ChampionsofThe… on

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

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drfall92

June 17th, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^

I like the Adidas yellow way better. The Nike maize is ugly and outdated if you ask me, and a lot of others. The darker "maize" just looks ugly as hell when wearing their merchandise imo.

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chatster

June 17th, 2015 at 4:25 PM ^

Lawns?

Well East Coast lawns are green
I really dig their special flair
And the Southern lawns are much greener now
With all the rains they’ve had down there
The Mid-West’s golf course greens
Will make your putter work all right
And the Northern lawns have gotten greener, too
‘Cause they get watered every night
I wish they'd all be green, California
I wish they'd all be green, California
I wish they'd all be green, California lawns

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jblaze

June 17th, 2015 at 3:53 PM ^

I think Adidas's Maize looks better on uniforms and on TV, but I'd rather wear a Nike Maize T-Shirt as it looks less like a highlighter.

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Esterhaus

June 17th, 2015 at 4:01 PM ^

 

It's so yester-Brandon. BTW you cannot copyright a color - color is a known physical property and only expressive works are copyrightable. Color, with considerable spend and time passage, can receive trademark protection, in which instance the promoter, including possibly Adidas or Nike, might attain legal rights to a color, however, Michigan certainly predates both Adidas and Nike with commercial adoption and use of Yellow And Blue as well as Maize And Blue. So unless we gave something away through a license we own those biotches in terms of our colors. /a patient liar, wups, a patent lawyer and Alum

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RGard

June 17th, 2015 at 4:01 PM ^

and have trichromatic vision.  Some of my tamarin friends are dichromatic and cannot differentiate between green and red.  Imagine their frustration when watching the MSU-OSU game.

Just be thankful we have the cones that enable us to argue between maize and yellow.

 

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MeanJoe07

June 17th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^

I was being sarcastic because many are surprised that such a highly functioning (and adorable) koala exists. Like I said earlier, my eyesight is poorly developed so forgive me if I had a hard time differentiating between a chimp and a monkey.  Would you like to be my arch enemy.  I've been looking for one.

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RGard

June 17th, 2015 at 4:36 PM ^

koala's are highly functioning and very adorable; i'll give you that.  And to be fair, when chimps age they become foul tempered and violent so maybe my simian arrogance is misplaced.

I'd love to be your arch enemy, but how about a trans-species friendship instead?

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