School Colors

[North Texas Shep]

What year was black added as one of the school colors? I know it was one of the ten years I worked on my bachelors. Can't remember which one (thanks to Lucky Lou's). Came to mind because I had to argue with some one who thought it was crap we had black in our unis. Had to break out Wikipedia to prove my point. 

[UNTexas]

What year was black added as one of the school colors? I know it was one of the ten years I worked on my bachelors. Can't remember which one (thanks to Lucky Lou's). Came to mind because I had to argue with some one who thought it was crap we had black in our unis. Had to break out Wikipedia to prove my point. 

I know black was added to our uniforms as trim in 1994. 

[drex]

Actually, black and grey were OK'd by the athletic apartments accent colors in the late 80's...I was at the meeting and voted.

[UNTexas]

Anyone ever recall or notice the navy blue stripes outside the white middle stripe on the helmets in the mid 90s? Awful but very hard to see.

[Christopher Walker]

For all your color defense needs.

https://identityguide.unt.edu/create-our-look/color

Edited August 20, 2015 by Christopher Walker

[North Texas Shep]

Nice guide. Thanks

[oldguystudent]

For all your color defense needs.

https://identityguide.unt.edu/create-our-look/color

For those of us for whom the entire color spectrum pretty much all looks like one shade of blue, that is intensely specific.  I suppose that's why I've never understood the vitriol in my early years of UNT for wearing the "wrong" green.  It all pretty much looks the same to me.

I do like the ban on burnt orange though since I've seen some old school stuff that specifically included it.

[Eagle1855]

I believe it was listed as our tertiary color in the branding effort that gave us the current marks. 2005ish?

[aztecskin]

Given that UT's official colors are really just one color and their liberal use of white in uniforms and things, I've never saw the reasoning why we couldn't use black to accent, or even be the main color of the road or special uniforms. I do think that since we call green and white our primaries in our song (we don't say glory to the green and white and black) that it is a little weird to list it in the primary color list on the Identity guide. 

Mostly I don't care. I just want to look good. 

[greenjoe]

As I recall, this was done during the Craig Helwig era as AD.  Helwig had a University of Texas connection and added blue and "copper" (looked like burnt orange to me) to our then logo.  Accent colors he called them.  I was at the basketball game when Firefighter Rick was sitting in the base line seats with a sign protesting the addition of these foreign colors.  As I recall, Rick and his sign were removed from the Coliseum. 

 

I think the addition of blue and copper started us down this slippery slope of adding colors to be stylish.  White is generic enough but black has no place as part of the brand we are trying so hard to establish. 

 

If we don't know what our colors are I don't know why we'd expect others to have a clue. 

 

"Singing glory to the green.  Glory to the white.  for we know our University is striving for the right. "

 

GO MEAN GREEN