New Kit/Sponsor

[robbo1874]

My mate does a bit on the net re-painting old and painting up new subbuteo kits. Each kit has a specified airfix paint code to use. Before anyone says it's you, no it's not, it's genuinely a mate that does it. He makes pretty good coin from it- gets all the original boxes etc. I wouldn't have the skill or the patience. The variation of the kits we've had down the years from pink to purple is terrible.

[cannock villa]

Its easy, take a 1980 -81 shirt into Homebase, they do a colour match . Job done

[exigo]

As ever, it's not difficult. Straight from the brand guidelines.
Any creative studio worth its salt would get a proof or sample back for approval.

Hmmm,

Or follow this link to see how many alternatives come up when you type in Claret...

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder?q=claret


Or this one to see what happens if you use their colour selector thingy..

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder?q=%239A4741

You're missing the point. There's an exact Pantone colour 229; it will have versions that are colour-matched to different types of stock, coated paper, uncoated paper etc to give a consistent best match. I'm a creative director, I know how this stuff works. And believe me, it's really not difficult – and if there's any doubt for when a job goes to the printers, factories or wherever, you simply ask for a proof to be signed off.

b b b but Villa claret isn't the same as pantone claret. Villa claret is in the eye of the beholder (provided the beholder is a Villa fan). If Tony Pantone is a Villa fan then I might listen to him. We do need clarety clarity.

Pantone claret isn't our claret. Our claret is Pantone 229.
They are two different colours.

[Drummond]

Who says 229 is our claret? You?

[Malandro]

Who says 229 is our claret? You?

It was picked out under the gas lamp

[exigo]

Who says 229 is our claret? You?

The club. It's in their brand guidelines, which I have a copy of.

[Des Little]

Why don't we get a claret that everyone agrees is a true Villa claret then patent it?  Surely to God it's easier to do that leaving it as opposed to some beardy hipster bloke deciding what shade of purple we play in.

[The_Rev1]

Why don't we get a claret that everyone agrees is a true Villa claret then patent it?  Surely to God it's easier to do that leaving it as opposed to some beardy hipster bloke deciding what shade of purple we play in.

Why? Here's why:

[Malandro]

sneaky preview

[Des Little]

Premier league numbers?  Are you on the cooking sherry?

[Malandro]

Premier league numbers?  Are you on the cooking sherry?

Its the finer details that catch me out.

[Des Little]

Pour me a glass, there's a good chap

[ChicagoLion]

So the club knows what colour the shirts should be.

So why do we get different colour shirts every year?

Can someone tweet the Doctor?

[nigel]

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[Proposition Joe]

Claret's just a weird colour I think, can never decide between red and purple.  My formative Villa years were the Mita Copiers ones, where my memory tells me the claret was more a reddy claret than a purply one.

Like this


But this is a picture of the same shirt:


It's the perfect Villa shirt: too red for the purple brigade, too purple for the red brigade