Tigers are not black & gold, they are black & orange.

[God-King Dean]

That is all.

 

[851]

Black orange and white

 

[macnaz]

Lol the old Balmain theme song used to say it was black and Gold.

 

[God-King Dean]

And they were f**king liars.

 

[Ausguy]

agree... very orange

 

[37916319]

Just ran the Tigers orange through PhotoShop, has an RGB of 255,142,32. Your right it is more orange than it is Gold, However i did the same for the Dragons Red and it came back closer to pink...wierd right

 

[The Rosco]

The international system for identifying and referencing colours is the Pantone Matching System, or funnily enough PMS.
Each colour has a specific PMS designation that corresponds to a formula of relative percentage of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
This way, an exact colour can be reproduced authentically by using it's PMS number.

Dean, I"ll find the PMS number for the orange in today's jersey and compare it to the gold in the old Tigers one.

Thanks for taking such an interest in our lil ole team.

 

[drago brelli]

The Balmain Tigers and the Illawarra Steelers will never die.

 

[37916319]

The Balmain Tigers and the Illawarra Steelers will never die.

Amen to that.

Nor will the rivalry. Love it.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

PMS151c is the PMS number according to a member who attended a q and a session with the club.

Colour of Orange: Why has this changed?
Response: He said that there is a despite people saying the colour of the orange is meant to be 'gold' that the PMS colour of Wests Tigers orange is called PMS151c (i wrote this down on the day). He showed me this in the style guide from last year and also the style guide from the year 2000 when WT started (both he and i could only assume that when the JV was started they wanted a WT orange shade as opposed to using Balmain's). He also showed me a guide that has all the colours (I believe one that designers use) and this colour orange is actually a very bright orange. He said that these were the colours agreed upon when the joint venture started.
I then asked why the big difference between 2010 and then 2011. He said that from around 2008 the colour was changed to another orange, he showed me this as well but can't remember the exact number. It was very gold, almost yellow. He said that by the end of the season players jerseys were almost yellow or the Titans sandy colour after they were washed numerous times.
Apparently the colour orange is one of the hardest colours to match across all items and the easiest to match was the 151c number so they reverted (no its not called tangerine as I've seen written).
He did say that in 2011 they wanted a more vibrant orange and that some came out brighter than others. He did admit that WT are aiming to achieve a WT orange and that given this is a unique colour to WT in most of Australian sport that this colour would be prominent in advertising and certain items. At the same time he did say that it is important to make sure that other colours are also well represented all the time. He said that some items don't always work and the Members cap is an example where it didn't come out anywhere near what they had planned and would change it for 2012.

Source - http://www.weststigersforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=259554&time=1331128101

 

[macnaz]

It may be worth investigating the colours worn in 2005 ? If Dean is correct there may well be very strong grounds to have our premiership stripped ! The Telecrap headlines. " THE FINE POLYESTER SCANDAL "

 

[God-King Dean]

Slighty OT, but I'm not gonna make another thread on the subject....

What are you guys thought on your current jersey? Which do you think was the best?

tbh I think most of Wests jerseys have been awful, though I think 2010 was easily the best one.

 

[sensesmaybenumbed]

Simplicity was good in 2008-2010. For mine, I really like the Magpies and Balmain heritage 'hoops' we've been using in the last couple of seasons. Dog knows we're spoiled for choice, but it's been a steady improvement compared to the days of Herbal World and the like (Heritage strips excluded)

Also very fond of the 2005-2007 strip for purely sentimental reasons. The current one is quite *ahem* unique, especially the away strip. There have been a vast number of excellent designs suggested by fans over at the weststigersforum...

None were used, more is the pity.

 

[Front-Rower]

Simplicity was good in 2008-2010. For mine, I really like the Magpies and Balmain heritage 'hoops' we've been using in the last couple of seasons. Dog knows we're spoiled for choice, but it's been a steady improvement compared to the days of Herbal World and the like (Heritage strips excluded)

Also very fond of the 2005-2007 strip for purely sentimental reasons. The current one is quite *ahem* unique, especially the away strip. There have been a vast number of excellent designs suggested by fans over at the weststigersforum...

None were used, more is the pity.

I think the current away strip is one of the best we have ever had. I'm very fond with white as main colour and the tiger stripes embedded into it.

 

[God-King Dean]

Simplicity was good in 2008-2010. For mine, I really like the Magpies and Balmain heritage 'hoops' we've been using in the last couple of seasons. Dog knows we're spoiled for choice, but it's been a steady improvement compared to the days of Herbal World and the like (Heritage strips excluded)

Also very fond of the 2005-2007 strip for purely sentimental reasons. The current one is quite *ahem* unique, especially the away strip. There have been a vast number of excellent designs suggested by fans over at the weststigersforum...

None were used, more is the pity.

This may sound geniused but I didn't mind the 2005 strip because it reminded me of Tigers style of footy lol.

If I had it my way:

Left would be away, right would be home.

 

[Vic Mackey]

The 2008-2010 jerseys were the only ones I liked, the rest (including our current ones) are terrible