They still can't get the orange right

[Kul]

It's been raised so many times before and the club have even acknowledged it, but AGAIN they can't get the damn orange right:

2017 jersey:


The thread on the emblem is the right colour, surely someone in Quality Control is able to see that they don't match.

It's not as bad as the high-vis blood-orange from 2012, but it's not our proper orange:


It REALLY irks me and has been a very big factor in me not buying a jersey for the past 5 years

 

[jirskyr]

Did Wests Tigers officially change the colour from gold to orange in 2000? If yes, that would make our heritage jerseys accurate to the Balmain gold, but not necessarily Wests Tigers orange?

Black and gold, never fold and all that.

Not that I disagree with you, but they do so much nonsense on and off w the jersey that I just buy the ones that catch my eye every few years. I REALLY like the indigenous one from last year, will be going with that for a few years unless I get fat in shorter time.

 

[Glennb]

Add the lack of Orange to the wrong orange and you can see a pattern emerging…..

 

[innsaneink]

If the orange on the jersey background is the same as the logo…it wont really stand out that much, unless its on a white or black bit
That said Id prefer the orange shade below

Did Wests Tigers officially change the colour from gold to orange in 2000? If yes, that would make our heritage jerseys accurate to the Balmain gold, but not necessarily Wests Tigers orange?

Dont know, what do you think?


 

[jirskyr]

If the orange on the jersey background is the same as the logo…it wont really stand out that much, unless its on a white or black bit
That said Id prefer the orange shade below

Did Wests Tigers officially change the colour from gold to orange in 2000? If yes, that would make our heritage jerseys accurate to the Balmain gold, but not necessarily Wests Tigers orange?

Dont know, what do you think?


No I don't mean the shade, the RGB, I mean are our colours now officially "black, white and orange"? When it was black and gold, you couldn't venture too far away from the traditional Balmain orange and still call it gold (because let's be honest, it was orange). But if the official colour is now orange, well there is a whole blood-orange / grapefruit / coral / hi-vis pantheon of electric hues they can call on.

 

[Tigerdon]


doesn't look too bad in this photo. then again, i haven't seen the real thing

 

[innsaneink]

Its described as orange by the club now….
but yeah Balmain were orange too even if it were called gold, gold imo is more yellow than orange.

 

[Geo]

Is Don Is Good…those were the days...

 

[Tigerdon]

Orange is made up of the primary colours Yellow and Red.
When the Red is too prominent it turns into a horrible colour.

 

[steve-o]

I love the orange (and the jersey) that Benji is wearing in Kul's second photo.

Kul, can you show us a picture of a tigers jersey with the orange that you do like?

 

[matchball]

Oh wow Owen Craigie.
What a wasted talent. I forgot about him entirely.

 

[gallagher]

Maybe the fabric has something to do with it. it always looks shiny rather than the old style cotton jerseys. Balmains kit from the 80s was unreal.

 

[DonnyBrasco]

Orange is one of the hardest colours to do nicely in print, so they might be choosing a certain swatch that they know will also print well on offset without a Pantone.

 

[jirskyr]

Orange is one of the hardest colours to do nicely in print, so they might be choosing a certain swatch that they know will also print well on offset without a Pantone.

Que?

 

[Tim Sheens]

Yeah, I'm with Kul, a bugbear of mine as well.

 

[magpiecol]

Wow, is this life/death or what???

Pulling the blankets back over my head and sobbing softly.

 

[DonnyBrasco]

Orange is one of the hardest colours to do nicely in print, so they might be choosing a certain swatch that they know will also print well on offset without a Pantone.

Que?

Orange can be a tricky colour to get right across all mediums, and I'd say the people who make the jerseys most likely have an Inhouse designer who might select the colours to choose from…

http://www.signs101.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-110552.html

 

[Flippedy]

I prefer apples

 

[foreverbalmain]

They're starting to look like the GWS giants.
Won't be long before we have their jersey as ours. :roll :roll

 

[Tigerdon]

The Colour across the top ends at the sleaves , making it look like a vest.
Think this is why many preferred Cragegus Design.