(05-27-2014 05:32 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-27-2014 05:16 PM)XLance Wrote:  South Carolina may call their color Garnet but it is the same Pantone color as Mississippi State (my bad NOT Alabama) and Arkansas. They had to change when none of the merchandise manufactures could ever match their color.
http://www.arkansasfight.com/2014/2/19/5...ade-of-red

http://boards.sportslogos.net/topic/5811...or-scheme/

http://mrsec.com/2014/02/arkansas-changi...olor-hell/

The same thing happened to Tennessee. Their Orange has not always been the Bright Orange that it is today. It once was more of a yellowish orange. I heard, although I never substantiated, that their particular shade of Orange was no longer available through merchandise manufactures. However most of these color issues are not because they cannot be matched it is because the Asian sweatshops where the merchandise is made keeps their color selections very basic to discourage returned merchandise. They don't want to try to match the color as they want to run multiple products off of simplified dye choices. Matching colors raises the overhead for colors that are unique. It is time consuming, makes it too difficult to duplicate, and it is far more costly out of bulk quantity purchases.

Nobody makes the mistake of confusing Pantone 202 with Pantone 278. There is no 'lil carolina garnet, but there is Carolina Blue.
http://www.licensing.unc.edu/Stylesheet