Anonymous
Post 05/07/2025 08:58     Subject: Re:Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:I like the old-timey colors and patterns. Like Harvard. Crimson with an H. Simple. Notre Dame with the gold and blue. You know what's what with these schools and there are a gazzilion years of history behind it.

The University of Maryland color scheme is an abomination to all that is good and decent in this world.



Harvard challenged Fordham over who got to use the school colors and lost. Of course they didn’t drop them but they should only wear all white as far as I am concerned.
Anonymous
Post 05/07/2025 08:04     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:chatgpt answers:

University of Oregon: Green and yellow, but they often incorporate neon tones, especially on sports gear.


You need a chart for all the football games, sometimes it’s also black, white, stripes. Buy a lot of Nike gear!
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 20:45     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:Tennessee orange.


Hardly unique.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 19:14     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Tennessee orange.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 15:16     Subject: Re:Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:I like the old-timey colors and patterns. Like Harvard. Crimson with an H. Simple. Notre Dame with the gold and blue. You know what's what with these schools and there are a gazzilion years of history behind it.

The University of Maryland color scheme is an abomination to all that is good and decent in this world.



Totally agree. I hate UMD’s garish color scheme. It’s on their license plates too - so ugly.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 14:35     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Washington
Purple and Gold
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 14:01     Subject: Most unique school colors?
UNC is indeed iconic.

Clemson when you add in the Regalia/Purple with Orange is pretty unique.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:43     Subject: Most unique school colors?
I agree with the earlier post about UNC. That shade of blue is so unique that you immediately know it's a Tarheel.

Same with UT Austin. Just seeing that burnt orange tells you immediately that it's a Longhorn.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:41     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:Sweet briar is pink and green https://www.sbc.edu/communications/branding/


University of North Dakota is also pink & green. (Green for the green prairies & pink for rosy prospects.) The colors were chosen by the students in 1889.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:40     Subject: Re:Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:
I mean, UMD's red, white, black and gold. No big deal individually, but collectively? Unique and gorgeous.

This might be the answer since I don’t think anyone else has four colors.

Virginia Tech’s are the worst.

UChicago booster is hilarious - lots of colleges have Marion and white including Colgate, Fordham and Morehouse.


You and I have very different tastes. I love Virginia Tech’s distinctive color scheme, but think Maryland’s 4 colors are garish.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:31     Subject: Re:Most unique school colors?
I like the old-timey colors and patterns. Like Harvard. Crimson with an H. Simple. Notre Dame with the gold and blue. You know what's what with these schools and there are a gazzilion years of history behind it.

The University of Maryland color scheme is an abomination to all that is good and decent in this world.

Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:20     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:Not surprisingly, RISD has a highly detailed explanation of its logo, color, typeface/font, etc:
https://identity.risd.edu/how-we-look?ref=lorcandempsey.net


That was fun!

(But I'm someone who thinks university branding sites are interesting in general.)
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:17     Subject: Re:Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:I mean, UMD's red, white, black and gold. No big deal individually, but collectively? Unique and gorgeous.

I'd imagine, if TPTB there wanted to, the athletic teams could go full-on Oregon and have a quintillion different uniform/color combos - and I bet all of them would be amazing.


They did that a while back. Most of the combo's were terrible.
Anonymous
Post 05/06/2025 13:10     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Not surprisingly, RISD has a highly detailed explanation of its logo, color, typeface/font, etc:
https://identity.risd.edu/how-we-look?ref=lorcandempsey.net
Anonymous
Post 05/05/2025 23:21     Subject: Most unique school colors?
Anonymous wrote:Carnegie Mellon is plaid. How is that not clearly the most unique? lol all these other combinations are as old as time.


Technically not just plaid but tartan, right? My brother is an alum and loved that.