Team Colors

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by JB987

Does anyone else out there switch colors?

We used to wear yellow shirt on Thursday that were essentially the negative of our normal maroon shirts. We stopped getting the second shirt around 2006 and changed over to "Throwback Thursday" where we wear old tee-shirst from a different game, some times I wear some of the shirts I have that pre-date static team numbering to confuse people.

[akoscielski3]

We wear dark blue Polo's on Thursday's and then would wear our "Classic" Orange Jersey's on Friday and Saturday.

I believe 1114 wears black on thursday's and red on friday and saturday. But dont take my word for it.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by JB987

Does anyone else out there switch colors?

Team 116 used to have three different color shirts, one for each day of competition. Red and black (school colors) were staples, with the third usually being grey or white (aside of 2002 it was black with "fire" on the shoulders). Sometime (2005?) they switched to black on all three days to get a better identity (though Saturdays they wear a polo instead of a t-shirt).

Team 1712 used to wear both black and maroon shirts (same design), until this past year where we switched to maroon all three days.

[Billfred]

Our team colors are garnet and black, drawn from our lead sponsor: the University of South Carolina. Yellow and white have also been used as accents over the years, and gray was used as part of an all-black-everything motif this year (as a one-year thing).

[Xgirl]

what do you think is the least common?

[Xgirl]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Our team colors are garnet and black, drawn from our lead sponsor: the University of South Carolina. Yellow and white have also been used as accents over the years, and gray was used as part of an all-black-everything motif this year (as a one-year thing).

what do you think is the least common?

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by Xgirl

what do you think is the least common?

I would stick that onto any odd mix (but I cannot think of any odd pairs).
Really though, in FIRST, you never can rule out any combination.

Although, once you stare at Wildstang and MOE, you see colors that you never thought existed. (Seeing them compete on Newton together made my mind pop).

[Astrokid248]

Originally Posted by Xgirl

what do you think is the least common?

If you want an unused color combo, go with brown, pink, and sky blue. Only a few teams I know of use pink (mainly the Pink Team), one uses brown (UPS), and a few use sky blue (Discobots come to mind). No one uses brown/blue or brown/pink that I'm aware of. Lime green or black are the most used colors.

Robonauts are black, white, and gold with red and blue accents, and that color set in various combinations is fairly common. The key is making your logo use the colors in an eye catching way and integrating the logo/color scheme across your entire team. So whatever colors you use, common or rare, you can still stand out. No one confuses CRyptonite 624 with 365 MOE, because of the branding they use even though they are both lime green and black.

[ZipTie3182]

Purple It's fairly common in our area. I would say blue and black are most common here. Orange too maybe

[EricH]

If I wanted to go with the absolute least used colors, brown and grey. 330 used to stand out in a large crowd as a small grey blob (as opposed to the large PINK and MOE Green blobs), but switched permanently to royal blue and yellow (school colors are royal blue and white). Brown, as noted, is really only used by one or two teams. Grey, as far as I know, isn't used by anybody in particular. Used right, they could work well together...

Colors that get a lot of use or are associated with specific teams:
Green (8, 610, 217, 365 (the aforementioned MOE), 179...)
Blue (330, 60, 254, 68, you get the picture)
White, just about every team has used at some point.
Black and white, 1983 (Skunkworks) and 1538 (Holy Cows) come to mind right away.
Red tends to crop up on Canadian teams, as well as a lot of U.S. teams.
Yellow, not as common but can be quite common in the right area of the country.
Pink is associated with 233... but there are one or two other teams that do use that color.

[dag0620]

1071's main color is a nice dark blue with a supplement of either White or Grey accents.

[Tori]

Secondary colors paired with metallics are very uncommon.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Team 1058 has Black and Red as our colors. Teams that use purple, yellow, or red seem tO have cool shirts (at least in my opinion) I especially like team 3467's black and gold combination

[Astrokid248]

Originally Posted by JB987

177, 190, 987 primary team color is maroon/burgandy... and since 987's school colors are maroon and grey we actually honor the grey by wearing grey on practice day then switch to maroon for next two days. Does anyone else out there switch colors?

We do a very weird system. On Thursdays, we wear a shirt based on our robot's theme for the season. For instance, this year our bot was Endeavour, so we wore a yellow shirt with a red shuttle and Endeavour in red Transformers font underneath and all our sponsors in red on the back. (Some past years: last year was dark gray with a white dragon and Magic in white Aniron font; 2010 was a white shirt with red dynamite sticks; 2009 was deep red with a black ringed planet and the name Revolution in gold.) Fridays are our signature black shirts with the NASA style logo on the front and our team meatball on the back. Saturdays we wear a polo (before 2011, the meatball was embroidered on the left breast, 2011 to present we use the NASA style logo instead) which we haven't settled the style on with khakis.

Robot theme and pit theme really help tie everything together. Our white frame, gold innards, single red part, and black/gold pit helps us drive home our NASA imagery. Spectrum 3847 and LASA both integarte purple into their bots and pits, but do so in different ways that nicely coordinate. Wildstang's and MOE's clean pits with color panel accents look nice and match their robots every year. Fondly Fire....well, you can't go wrong with flames everywhere.

Another good way to go is headgear. Fondly Fire again has these wild flaming baseball hats. CRyptonite is actually sponsored by got2be, and use those products to spoke their hair to high heaven. We have a combination of blue hair and embroidered baseball hats. I've seen teams with top hats, teams with mohawks, teams with attached glowing bits and teams that wear pom poms.

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by Astrokid248

We do a very weird system. On Thursdays, we wear a shirt based on our robot's theme for the season. For instance, this year our bot was Endeavour, so we wore a yellow shirt with a red shuttle and Endeavour in red Transformers font underneath and all our sponsors in red on the back. (Some past years: last year was dark gray with a white dragon and Magic in white Aniron font; 2010 was a white shirt with red dynamite sticks; 2009 was deep red with a black ringed planet and the name Revolution in gold.) Fridays are our signature black shirts with the NASA style logo on the front and our team meatball on the back. Saturdays we wear a polo (before 2011, the meatball was embroidered on the left breast, 2011 to present we use the NASA style logo instead) which we haven't settled the style on with khakis.

Robot theme and pit theme really help tie everything together. Our white frame, gold innards, single red part, and black/gold pit helps us drive home our NASA imagery. Spectrum 3847 and LASA both integarte purple into their bots and pits, but do so in different ways that nicely coordinate. Wildstang's and MOE's clean pits with color panel accents look nice and match their robots every year. Fondly Fire....well, you can't go wrong with flames everywhere.

Another good way to go is headgear. Fondly Fire again has these wild flaming baseball hats. CRyptonite is actually sponsored by got2be, and use those products to spoke their hair to high heaven. We have a combination of blue hair and embroidered baseball hats. I've seen teams with top hats, teams with mohawks, teams with attached glowing bits and teams that wear pom poms.

I'll admit to the fact that that when we were working on out branding 118 was a large part our inspiration. We were rookies in 2006 and our first FIRST regional was Lone Star. One our of head mentors (who, actually is NASA employee / my mother) loved y'all's polos, baseball caps, etc. and pushed for us to get some. (years later when we started branding, we did). We now do something vaguely similar with the different shirts for different days, game shirts based on that years game and standard logo shirts. That idea was also inspired by 118..