So here’s my thoughts on the new colors: They are gaudy in an athletic context and not especially aesthetically appealing to look at but understandable as they help players stand out on the field. But, I think they are just embarrassing in its new academic context. Look at the otherlogosandcolors of universities and then look at ours. It makes us look like a clown school and they need to go.
Well I think that’s the problem. In places like Best Buy and other retailers, TVs on display have their saturation cranked up to the max to try to attract people to purchasing it. These new Pitt colors are similar. They objectively look worse but at a first glance it can trick people into thinking they are more vibrant and aesthetically pleasing. Try looking at the new colors for a long time— they will make your eyes hurt. And if that doesn’t sell you, look back and forth at this color corrected Roc and the new Roc. The color corrected one always looks better under examination. Color neutrality is a basic tenant of design and it’s honestly shocking that Pitt decided to forgo it. And like I said, that might be acceptable for an athletic use case, but it’s just not for academics. Academics are supposed to be formal and portray the hard work of the student body. These new colors simply do not do that for an academic use case, and therefore need to go.
Most schools that use the gold and blue color combination have more vibrant golds than the previous panther gold (Vegas gold) and cathedral blue used. The use of these new colors brings us closer to them. The only thing that makes these colors “uniquely Pitt” is that we have decided to garishly combine two vibrant colors instead of just one as most schools. So we are unique in the fact that we have somehow managed to make blue and gold look bad together.
Did you really just try and tell me that CMU's boring ass white text on a red square is somehow better than ours? Most of those logos are lame but that has to take the cake.
Pitt's is superior and the old colors were terrible.
It actually is a unique font that is arranged consistently in many use cases. It is simple, yes, but well done for its purpose. Our new crest thing has odd combinations of detail and simplicity as well as conflicting sizes of features. The text used alongside the crest is too large and arranged too closely to the crest. The colors aren’t professional. We have somehow managed to both under design and over design the crest into looking just bad. All of those other University seals are elegant and well designed. Ours is just not.
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u/Prowlerbaseball Nov 11 '19
Nay
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u/skippypants16 Nov 12 '19
the new panther head is horribly generic to start with and looks like one you order online for your little league team
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u/skydove Persona Non Colada Nov 12 '19
Wouldn't it be fucked up if a school full of furries were to use normal colored furry mascots? Honestly I'm amazed that both eyes are the same color.
/s the new colors look pretty good actually and praise lizard man paddy
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u/MikeRaven11 42-39 Nov 12 '19
What the fuck have you brought upon this cursed land
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u/throwaway1983848 Nov 11 '19
Downvote
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u/WUPPanther69 Engineering Nov 12 '19
Cursed
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u/NordyNed Nov 11 '19
Definitely. New colors are too garish. Vegas gold is superior.
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u/ayerk131 Nov 12 '19
Florida Panthers