Question about Troy colors....

[Chris_the_DesTROYer]

It's time again to play "help the newbie"

I know that Troy's colors are cardinal, black, and silver. However, I've seen many different versions of "cardinal" and would like someone to explain to me what this color is SUPPOSED to look like...in comparison to, say, crimson or garnett. If you go to the regular Troy website (www.troy.edu), it shows a very deep red, but looking at pictures of uniforms, the red almost has a tinge of purple undertone.

Anyone?

[tsufl]

Our official shade of cardinal is
PMS 202 from the Pantone Matching System. Its not quite as dark as PMS 204 which is pretty close to Missy St. maroon.

[RedEdgeTrojan]

Looking at several different charts pms 204 looks pink to me and pms 202 some what purple and dark (could be my monitor). Personally, I like the pms 1805 (but that's just me).
Here is a link to one of the sites with the color chart:
http://www.pinpromotions.com/pantone.html

[SOTSAlumBigGuns]

You won't be able to appropriately judge color on a monitor. They are all calibrated differently. The only way to know truly how the color should look is to look at an actual PMS chip.

P.S. Both Mississippi State's PMS color and our PMS color is 202.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=mississippi+state+pms+color

http://dothan.troy.edu/TROYgraphics.htm

[RedEdgeTrojan]

P.S. Both Mississippi State's PMS color and our PMS color is 202.

If this is the case, then either Troy or Miss State has the wrong PMS coded color. Miss State official colors are Maroon and White.
Maroon and White (Colors)

Maroon and White are the distinctive colors of Mississippi State University athletic teams, dating back over a century to the very first football game ever played by the school's student-athletes.

On November 15, 1895, the first Mississippi A&M football team was preparing for a road trip to Jackson, Tenn., to play Southern Baptist University (now called Union University) the following day. Since every college was supposed to have its own uniform colors, the A&M student body requested that the school's team select a suitable combination.

Considering making this choice an honor, the innaugural State team gave the privilege to team captain W.M. Matthews. Accounts report that without hesitation Matthews chose Maroon and White.

In the 100 years since, every Mississippi State athlete has donned the Maroon and White in some sort of combination. Often a shade of gray has been added to the scheme, such as for the numerals. Briefly in the 1980s the men's and women's basketball teams wore all-gray uniforms with maroon and white trim, while football has at times sported silver game pants, and baseball will often wear all-gray road outfits.

Only once has a MSU team appeared in any other color combination. In 1938 football coach Spike Nelson secretly had cardinal and gold uniforms made for State, a selection that did not sit well with the team or the college at the first game. Neither the uniforms nor Nelson were back for the next season.

http://www.college-football--tickets.net/miss_state/history.htm

I noticed in the last paragraph that cardinal was once, briefly, a Miss St color.

Anyway, when I was in school, the red was much brighter. Last I will say any thing about it.

[Lord-Mustang]

I do notice that on one of the manual pages 2.6, they list it as PMS 202 C

Cardinal
PMS 202
The process conversion for PMS 202 C
is 100% Magenta, 61% Yellow, 43% Black
The Web color is 892034





"Troy Colors
The Troy University identity was designed with tradition
in mind. It continues Troy University’s use of Cardinal,
Silver and Black. The Cardinal is PMS 202, the Silver is
PMS 877 and the Black is PMS Black. When Metalic Silver
is not possible, use PMS Cool Gray 5 instead. When spot
PMS colors are not an option, the colors should be
reproduced using the process-color builds listed below:"


Mississippi State does list PMS 202 as Maroon they use for Business Cards, Envelopes, Letterhead, and Stationary.