<p>The acceptance envelope (hooray!) was brown with olive accents on the papers inside. Very nice.</p>
<p>But when grandparents were sending congrats with questions about school colors, I looked it up and they are crimson and gold!</p>
<p>The other folders were all in school colors--I'm curious why not Oberlin? Frankly, I was excited about brown and green as school colors......</p>
<p>Did you ever notice when you watch college sports that the uniforms tend to be in the school’s colors?</p>
<p>But not always: [Baylor</a> to shed neon uniforms, go all black vs. Kentucky | Basketball: Men | Kentucky.com](<a href=“http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/24/2124727/baylor-to-shed-neon-uniforms-go.html]Baylor”>http://www.kentucky.com/2012/03/24/2124727/baylor-to-shed-neon-uniforms-go.html)</p>
<p>So maybe you answered your own question…a split second before you asked it:</p>
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<p>There was a note on the Oberlin acceptance papers that the envelope and all of its contents were printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper, which I personally found very impressive.</p>
<p>I thought their folder was very tasteful and simple - not garish like several others that I’ve received. Points for Oberlin in my book!</p>
<p>Oh, I agree–I thought it was very nice looking! Very Oberlin-ish. Maybe I’ll just pretend the colors are green and brown…</p>
<p>Oberlin’s colors are mikado yellow and cardinal red. From a design perspective, we can’t make everything those two colors all the time for everything (gotta mix it up sometimes!), so we do also use a secondary palette of colors that are complimentary to our official colors. That deep brown and olive green are two of the colors we use regularly; even though they’re not our school colors, we love them dearly and we’re glad you do, too.</p>