Got Cardinal paint suggestions?
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Did you check ISU Brand and Marketing's website?
I would think you could take these and have paint mixed.
http://www.brandmarketing.iastate.edu/brand-elements/color-palette/
Or just call the Marketing office and ask them for advice. I'm sure you wouldn't be the first.
I would think you could take these and have paint mixed.
http://www.brandmarketing.iastate.edu/brand-elements/color-palette/
Or just call the Marketing office and ask them for advice. I'm sure you wouldn't be the first.
According to Sherwin Williams the cardinal is called "stolen kiss". I cannot remember what the gold color is. If you call the Sherwin Williams in Ames, they will be able to give you the colors.
If you get the printing codes from DSMCy's linky you can convert to different paint mixes from some major paint companies at this site. I did a test and for Behr it gave named mixes that might be close but did not give actual mixing instructions to match. You could run it for different companies or select "ALL" and see what comes closest. There was a Gliddon that was pretty close for cardinal, you could see the RGB breakdown was similar.
http://www.easyrgb.com/en/match.php#inputFORM
http://www.easyrgb.com/en/match.php#inputFORM
Thanks, for the help. If I hadn't had to run back to the Ace Hardware store, and if I hadn't been impatient, (and if I wasn't a dummy), I would have waited a bit for responses to this question.
But, no, I picked out colors at Ace, Clark-Kensington Satin Enamel:
Gold - Sense of Wonder VR041B
Cardinal - Pomegranate Seeds VR035A
Pretty close? Cardinal isn't just right, but it's going on the basement stairway walls, so it might darken up. I've already slapped on test patches.
For fun, my youngest son (29 now), the artist in the family, has been offered a commission (a beer or two) to come up with something original for the stairway . . . including, maybe, a heroic figure or some scene of his making from his comic book art days. Told him I have the final say, though. He's thinking about it. . . .
But, no, I picked out colors at Ace, Clark-Kensington Satin Enamel:
Gold - Sense of Wonder VR041B
Cardinal - Pomegranate Seeds VR035A
Pretty close? Cardinal isn't just right, but it's going on the basement stairway walls, so it might darken up. I've already slapped on test patches.
For fun, my youngest son (29 now), the artist in the family, has been offered a commission (a beer or two) to come up with something original for the stairway . . . including, maybe, a heroic figure or some scene of his making from his comic book art days. Told him I have the final say, though. He's thinking about it. . . .
I like your Cardinal better than my Cardinal. I might take mine back to Ace and dump in a bit of black.
Neat bag board.
You'll actually want to dump in a bit of cyan and yellow, assuming paint mixing works off CMYK. Black will just "shade" it, not change the nature of the red itself.
That link looks helpful! I once helped a friend paint his tailgate vehicle by setting up 3 simultaneous equations to take the RGB values from the 'low cost' implement paint (John Deere green, Harvester Red, ?? blue) samples he had scanned by his company graphic design guy to get the new ISU colors based on the athletic dept RGB values.
Here are the athletic specific ones:
https://apps-trademark.sws.iastate.edu/forms/athletics/data/708/isu_athletic_identity_usage.pdf
It was the best use of our engineering degrees/graphing calculators I can think of.
Good luck!
