Do we still use PMS 151 as our official shade of Orange

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Asking for a friends man cave.
The link below says this is our shade.
Graphic Identity Standards

But, watching UT Basketball this year, the shade on the uniforms looks darker and brighter.
Does anyone know if we have changed it?
 
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It's all pms 151 or the equivalent with other formulas. It has everything to do with the substrate it is printed on. All materials reflect and absorb light differently giving the appearance of different shades or even different colors. There is no way around this other than manipulating the formula if you are going to print.

You will never know until the ink/paint dries what the end result will look like and it has everything to do with the material and the lighting of the room....
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Asking for a friends man cave.
The link below says this is our shade.
Graphic Identity Standards

But, watching UT Basketball this year, the shade on the uniforms looks darker and brighter.
Does anyone know if we have changed it?
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A couple of suggestions:

1. If your friend has a white wall in the man cave, get some painters tape, a brush, a ruler, and some pms 151 and paint some checkerboards.

2. Given your love of poles, this is for you. It's not a man cave without a stripper pole in there!
 
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madbamahater said:
It's all pms 151 or the equivalent with other formulas. It has everything to do with the substrate it is printed on. All materials reflect and absorb light differently giving the appearance of different shades or even different colors. There is no way around this other than manipulating the formula if you are going to print.

You will never know until the ink/paint dries what the end result will look like and it has everything to do with the material and the lighting of the room....
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Something like that little dust-up over whether that dress was blue or white. If you put 151 on a dress, some on this board would swear it was gray.
 
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A little bit of unsolicited advice, when discussing this, refer to "HEX: #ff8200" instead of "PMS 151." Everyone will pretend to understand HEX even if they don't, and it'll spare you the inevitable premenstrual syndrome jokes.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
A couple of suggestions:

1. If your friend has a white wall in the man cave, get some painters tape, a brush, a ruler, and some pms 151 and paint some checkerboards.

2. Given your love of poles, this is for you. It's not a man cave without a stripper pole in there!
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Great suggestion.
And, yes, there will probably be a lot of poleing going on especially when the wives are outta town. :dance2:
 
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Tin Man said:
A little bit of unsolicited advice, when discussing this, refer to "HEX: #ff8200" instead of "PMS 151." Everyone will pretend to understand HEX even if they don't, and it'll spare you the inevitable premenstrual syndrome jokes.
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You mean like....the Orange badge of courage?
 
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Liked the lighter shade of orange we used during the Dickey and Fulmer years. Majors used a darker color as did Dooley and Butch.
 
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Vfl2407 said:
Asking for a friends man cave.
The link below says this is our shade.
Graphic Identity Standards

But, watching UT Basketball this year, the shade on the uniforms looks darker and brighter.
Does anyone know if we have changed it?
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An earlier poster was correct saying that different substrates reflect light differently (clothing, walls, etc.).

Pantone 151 is the precise formula for our shade of orange. Its called a spot color, which is created via formula at Pantone's lab versus the standard process colors which are created mixing different amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK).

Hexadecimal values are approximations of spot colors meant to be used digitally (not in print), so I'd stick with Pantone colors if you're looking for a paint match.
 
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In my man cave I ordered a massive photo from fathead of Neyland on game day with the power T. It is somewhere around 7x5 feet. It looks great. Unfortunately I just looked on the site and the biggest picture they have now is 4 feet and not as good a view IMO. Still, if you want something relatively cheap (I think I paid 60 bucks for it) that really catches people's eye I would check out something like that.
 
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