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Finding the OFFICIAL colors of the Mets

Fman99 Jul 15 2008 01:47 PM

The wife and I want to paint our 3 year old son's bedroom with the official colors of the Mets -- one orange wall and three blue ones. Unfortunately Home Depot, the "official" paint company of MLB, doesn't have any specific colors in their catalogs for any MLB teams. Which is pathetic. Anyone know how I can get interior paint to match the official Mets blue and orange? Any help is much appreciated. The guy on the phone there suggested I bring in an object (non-fabric) for them to try and match the paint to that object. But I don't know what would be a good object to bring... all of mine seem to be metallic (which reflects) or fabric (shirts, hats, etc.)

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2008 02:01 PM

Bring in a Mets scorecard or yearbook that has a large image of the official logo.

metirish Jul 15 2008 02:02 PM

You could just kick the Home Depot guy in the cunt.

seawolf17 Jul 15 2008 02:39 PM

That's not as effective as you want it to be. One of the companies has officially licensed team colors -- I've seen the ads. I think it's Home Depot that has the paint, but it could be Lowe's.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2008 02:42 PM

seawolf17 wrote: That's not as effective as you want it to be. Are you referring to the kicking, or the color scanning?

metirish Jul 15 2008 04:33 PM

My lame attempt at dirty humour.

Frayed Knot Jul 15 2008 04:55 PM

Bring Mr. Met with you to the paint store

OlerudOwned Jul 15 2008 05:20 PM

Official swatches from ssur.org

metsmarathon Jul 15 2008 05:28 PM

yeah, unfortunately, the glidden team colors dealie that home depot does doesn't include the mlb, though it does have college, mls, nhl, nfl teams and nascar. so you could luck out and find that one of those teams stole the mets colors... or buy some fancy mets merchandise to bring in for the matching...

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2008 05:29 PM

That blue looks kind of dark. It may match the brim on the black and blue cap, but I think it's darker than the all-blue. And hasn't the shade of blue changed? Maybe it's just me, but the cap looks brighter today than it did during the Seaver/Koosman days.

Zvon Jul 15 2008 06:27 PM

="OlerudOwned"] Official swatches from ssur.org I agree with grimm. I think that blue is a little dark, although I've seen that one used a lot in online images of the Met logo and team jersey/hat. I do a lot of Met image work, and to my eye this blue I swatched up is more a real Met blue.

Benjamin Grimm Jul 15 2008 06:28 PM

I think that the blue the Olerud posted might be a match for the caps from around 1970.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jul 15 2008 06:36 PM

I used to have an official MLB style guide from which I gleaned "Mets blue" to be on this page, search for "003EB3" It also appears "darker" than I think it is but it may be an illusion. [url]http://color.ssve.ru/xxxxb3[/url] Uh, don;t search, here it is: [url]http://color.ssve.ru/003eb3[/url]

Fman99 Jul 15 2008 06:47 PM

You guys rock. Thanks for the help. I'll be sure to post pictures once we get the room painted.

Fman99 Jul 15 2008 06:56 PM

metsmarathon wrote: yeah, unfortunately, the glidden team colors dealie that home depot does doesn't include the mlb, though it does have college, mls, nhl, nfl teams and nascar. so you could luck out and find that one of those teams stole the mets colors... or buy some fancy mets merchandise to bring in for the matching... Well that's the problem. Whatever item I use to match has to be flat in sheen and non-reflective, but also shouldn't be fabric which is not fully opaque. So that rules out all of my stuff basically. I wonder if printouts of these colored squares are flat enough. They may have to do.

RealityChuck Jul 15 2008 06:59 PM

Here are the original colors:

Fman99 Jul 15 2008 07:08 PM

="RealityChuck"]Here are the original colors: That orange looks a bit pale to me...

willpie Jul 15 2008 07:32 PM

I have it on good authority that the orange is Pantone 1655 C (same as the Orioles, incidentally). Not sure about the blue.

willpie Jul 15 2008 07:38 PM

Looks like the blue might be Pantone 288, though that's from by no means as definitive a source.

Kong76 Jul 15 2008 08:19 PM

Web safe color chart colors are a strange thing. Even then it depends on monitors and video cards. Discussing what looks right on a screen between us is a moot point, but that's just my opinion.