Talk:School colors

Possible move

It seems a more apt title for the article would be team colors since the article specifically mentions athletics in connection with school colors and also metions professional baseball teams.

This decision can't just reflect the personal bias of one editor and needs some sort of consensus before happening.

Scott 07:40, 23 December 2006 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sonpraises (talk • contribs)

A BETTER IDEA:

My recommendation is to visit: http://www.fashion-hound.com/college-colors where you will find the official and sports team colors of each university by state.

This gives a terrific example of the colors but nothing of their history or why schools have colors - which interests me.

If you'd like to see the official colors of academic robes (regalia) for general majors, go to: http://www.academicapparel.com/caps/regalia_colors.html for an excellent distinction. Here you see the robe and regalia colors, NOT school colors.

However, I see both of these topics as befitting the general topic of "school colors". Unless we have a section on the colors of academic regalia?75.21.119.216 (talk) 11:32, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

History

Could we research and find out why schools have the tradtion of colors and mascosts? 204.126.2.5 03:40, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Color Choices

Common primary colors include orange, purple, blue, red, and green. These colors are either paired with a 333color representing a metal (often black, brown, gray (or silver), white, or gold), or occasionally each other, such as orange/blue, red/green, or blue/yellow. Pairing two metals, such as black/white, silver/gold, and especially black/gold, is also a common practice.

So we can pair any primary color with any metal... or any primary color with any other primary color... or any metal with any other metal. Hmm.

Is this really necessary? --192.88.124.204 (talk) 04:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Distinctions

One more thing: we need distinction between school color guidelines in America as opposed to Britain. No reason to separate the two traditions, but Britain is NOT the only country with school color traditions!75.21.119.216 (talk) 11:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Notable School Colors

Is there a particular reason that BLUE is the only "notable school color" identified in that section of the article? Perhaps the author of this section could explain why any of the stated colors are notable. PlaysInPeoria (talk) 01:52, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

This section should be a list of school colours that have Wikipedia article, meaning they have have passed Wikipedia's notability criteria. (Also palatinate is a shade of purple, and Cambridge blue and Eton blue are both shades of green, so it's not actually just blue). It looks like RISD, Tufts and UCLA blue no longer have articles of their own, having been merged into other articles a few months ago; these should probably be removed (and I have now done so). If any other school colours have articles, these should be added (there aren't any others with articles in Category:School colors, however). ~~~ Robminchin (talk) 02:47, 16 December 2023 (UTC)