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This is another one of those off-season topics that may have been touched upon before, but seriously what is with the colour red the club is using on its website and why do we seem to be stuck between two shades of it?

Yes, I realise this will be a non issue among many here, but I find it odd that our jumper colour (2015) does not match the logo and the shade used on Promotional Material. Demonland is much the same, you only need to look to the banner on the site to see that while our jumper appears to be the traditional RED the logo and pro forma all appear to be a deeper shade akin to purple.

The MFC website is much the same. The team colours are red and blue, not purple and blue. This a yet another hangover from the Schwabb era, when he tried to 'deepen' the red on the jumper without any success, as modern fabrics mad it look purple. I am still at a loss to explain why the club's website still appears to be using the purpl-ish red and Demonland for that matter?

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I don't like the 'purple' or more accurately 'maroon' colour.

But I certainly don't like orange style light tomato colour or the Sydney Swans style pink.

In the OP I think the branding is certainly much too maroon, but the jumper on Jonesy is just a slight too orange.

The polo shirt Roosy is wearing seems just about perfectly red. A rich, strong, deep red that is still 100% red. Like a beautiful classic ferrari.

I think the club knows what colour it wants, but getting that on to the jumper might not be as easy as it sounds. Fixing the branding is probably an issue, but I'd rather we spend money on football than worry about the website being a bit off colour.

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This is another one of those off-season topics that may have been touched upon before, but seriously what is with the colour red the club is using on its website and why do we seem to be stuck between two shades of it?

Yes, I realise this will be a non issue among many here, but I find it odd that our jumper colour (2015) does not match the logo and the shade used on Promotional Material. Demonland is much the same, you only need to look to the banner on the site to see that while our jumper appears to be the traditional RED the logo and pro forma all appear to be a deeper shade akin to purple.

The MFC website is much the same. The team colours are red and blue, not purple and blue. This a yet another hangover from the Schwabb era, when he tried to 'deepen' the red on the jumper without any success, as modern fabrics mad it look purple. I am still at a loss to explain why the club's website still appears to be using the purpl-ish red and Demonland for that matter?

Is it just me? or does it bother other posters too?150224_SeasonLaunchSocial.jpg

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Agree 100%. It annoys me too.

Last year the socks didn't even match the jumpers - the socks were the deeper red and the jumper the regular red. In addition, all the off-field gear (eg. media polo, coach's clothes, training gear) were the deeper red / maroon colour which didn't match the on-field jumpers.

I know it's only a little thing but it looks unprofessional in my opinion.

I personally hate that deep red colour as it didn't work. Everything came out looking maroon and more like an old Fitzroy jumper than Melbourne.

My understanding is that after people complained about the deep red jumper a few years ago, they agreed to change it back to the regular red. However, I was told that this would be the only change - the deeper red would appear on all other club merchanise.

I think club colours needs to be consistent across the board and therefore we should just do away with that awful deep red / maroon colour on everything (including logos and promotional material) and go back to the normal red that is on the current jumper and that all other teams wear.

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Agree 100%. It annoys me too.

Last year the socks didn't even match the jumpers - the socks were the deeper red and the jumper the regular red. In addition, all the off-field gear (eg. media polo, coach's clothes, training gear) were the deeper red / maroon colour which didn't match the on-field jumpers.

I know it's only a little thing but it looks unprofessional in my opinion.

I personally hate that deep red colour as it didn't work. Everything came out looking maroon and more like an old Fitzroy jumper than Melbourne.

My understanding is that after people complained about the deep red jumper a few years ago, they agreed to change it back to the regular red. However, I was told that this would be the only change - the deeper red would appear on all other club merchanise.

I think club colours needs to be consistent across the board and therefore we should just do away with that awful deep red / maroon colour on everything (including logos and promotional material) and go back to the normal red that is on the current jumper and that all other teams wear.

In fairness to the club and suppliers, matching colours on fabris is not easy. However, I do agree with the sentiments and for digital artwork there should be no excuse to not get the colours right.

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Demonland is much the same, you only need to look to the banner on the site to see that while our jumper appears to be the traditional RED the logo and pro forma all appear to be a deeper shade akin to purple.

On here I'd probably say it's because the deeper shade is a bit easier on the eyes, not as bright so makes the viewing a little better

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Of course the colour you see on your screen or monitor is heavily dependent on the settings you have for them...

I won't go into the intricacies of RGB, CMYK or spot colours, or the concept of colour composition, but it is a complex subject.

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Of course the colour you see on your screen or monitor is heavily dependent on the settings you have for them...

I won't go into the intricacies of RGB, CMYK or spot colours, or the concept of colour composition, but it is a complex subject.

Christ Machsy don't even mention that shite!!

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I have been led to believe that we are playing in white against Freo, unconfirmed

It is a disgrace that 'away' jumper. It looks like a Saints jumper if anything. Why can't we b like Collingwood? One (distinctly unique) jumper and just change the colour of your shorts!

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I would have thought:

Home jumper

-Collingwood, Geelong, GWS, GC, Hawthorn, North, Richmond, Sydney, Dogs

Red

-Carlton, Fremantle, St Kilda (even though I don't think we clash), Port, West Coast

White

-Adelaide, Brisbane, Essendon

Would have thought Red was closer to Purple than white was

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