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The colors were cream and crimson, changed to red and white and then changed back to the current cream and crimsonWith all the emotional turmoil about Indiana no longer being a blue blood program or an elite program...
Okay I will just say it. The school colors are red and white. They are not cream and crimson. Just saying something doesn't make it so.
"As for the colors, we have a somewhat more comprehensive history of their origins. The December 1887 Indiana Student noted that the “colors of the university are crimson and black. Senior class cream and gold.” So, at some point, the two different color combinations must have fused together. By 1903, The Daily Student published an article that stated most of the students and faculty had no idea what IU’s colors were, but several answered confidently that the colors were some variation of crimson, red, white, and cream. The writer of this article explicitly stated that the colors of the university were cream and crimson, explaining that these colors were adopted fifteen years prior (in 1888). Apparently, the colors gained popularity due to their catchy alliteration.
In later years, IU switched to a simpler red and white. It wasn’t until around 2002 that they reverted back to the signature cream and crimson. The University hired Michael-Osborne Design from San Francisco to redesign the interlocking IU symbol with instructions to apply the crimson color to it. Designer Paul Kagiwada gave the logo a newer, cleaner look. The result is that same iconic symbol you’ll see all over campus today."
I like the crimson a lot better than our red. They don’t actually wear cream - it’s white. I’d like to see cream as well.
No, you wouldn't. I think Wyche or Cameron tried it with the football uniforms once. They looked like frat house dirty laundry.
I remember those for football and I actually liked the cream part, but it wasn't done quite right because it was also combined with some awful uniform changes. However, I can live with crimson and a whiter shade of cream.
I seriously do love the crimson more than the red.It was Wyche. Those uniforms lasted as long as he did.
Marketing at IU could never get the "red/crimson" thing right. There always seems to be "fifty shades of red" out there.
Believe it or not, they now have finally taken control of that and have very strict guidelines and requirements. (My company is an IU licensee.) Gone are the days when it was a free for all, and different coaches or sports had different schemes and looks.
That said, it's still hard to get things like football jerseys and football helmets to appear to match. That's an optical physics problem. The different materials have different reflective and absorption properties, which effect the perceived hue, even when the PMS colors used in the coatings and dyes are dead on to the specs.
Just time to get rid of the gay warm-up pantsWith all the emotional turmoil about Indiana no longer being a blue blood program or an elite program...
Okay I will just say it. The school colors are red and white. They are not cream and crimson. Just saying something doesn't make it so.
It’s red and white. Remember Go Big Red? I find it interesting the school went to San Fran to design a logo. It just shows that the school left Indiana a longtime ago and looks to the coastal for everything from leadership to apparently logo’s. Hence the disconnect with the State now. Not surprising.
Time to ban the embittered homophobic PU grads.
I was thrilled when they went back to specing Crimson. So much better looking from a clothing standpoint.
now that you mention it, i'm not married to the candy stripe warm up pants (even though we currently have 3 pair in our family). when did that tradition take hold?
every team that wears red is "go big red!". nebraska, wisconsin, arkansas and on and on. cream and crimson is indiana
Well we could chant “ Let’s get creamed”.... but something tells me those guys won’t be very intimidating
In all fairness...you remember that horrific logo that was designed for the Wyche football team in 1983?
That was actually the outcome of a design contest they ran in Bloomington and I believe it was an art student who won with that design.
No wonder they stopped any design ideas in Bloomington. I believe “The Herald Telephone” ran the contest.
Ya that is bad...... still doesn’t change the fact they have lost touch with “Indiana” and doesn’t care to be reacquainted .... why they have “evolved” and are global now .... eye rollIn all fairness...you remember that horrific logo that was designed for the Wyche football team in 1983?
That was actually the outcome of a design contest they ran in Bloomington and I believe it was an art student who won with that design.
No wonder they stopped any design ideas in Bloomington. I believe “The Herald Telephone” ran the contest.
With all the emotional turmoil about Indiana no longer being a blue blood program or an elite program...
Okay I will just say it. The school colors are red and white. They are not cream and crimson. Just saying something doesn't make it so.
NotedWith all the emotional turmoil about Indiana no longer being a blue blood program or an elite program...
Okay I will just say it. The school colors are red and white. They are not cream and crimson. Just saying something doesn't make it so.
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