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Processional Colors[edit]

One of the key identifiers of a student's achievement of membership in an honor society is their ability to wear the colors of that society as an accessory over their academic robes or on a mortarboard tassel. Hence, I added several dozen examples of these colors to various societies, creating a format convention that I think will be helpful. The director of the ACHS informed me that such usage is not only popular, but growing.

Future editors: Use this coding if you wish to follow the same format and add colors to another society. (Or to correct my mistakes.)

After the name of the society and the area of profession in parenthesis, add a comma, and insert the following language, updated of course with Wikilinks to your specific colors and correct swatches:
colors: {{color box|#FF0000}} [[Red]] and {{color box|#8F00FF}} [[Violet (color)|Violet]]

would result in this:
Colors: Red and Violet

The HEX code after the pipe identifies the color of the colorblock, and the following Wikilink connects to a page for the specific color or color family.

Frankly, some honor societies are more organized than others, and some are pickier than others about their exact colors. For example, while one that I worked on listed "blue" as one of their colors, I had to do some digging to find which version of blue was appropriate. The most definitive statement may often be found in the society's bylaws or constitution if you can find those documents, or by matching to a swatch from actual regalia, or from a crest. You will find that some honor society websites have tried to match to the actual society's colors, but with greater or lesser success depending on the skills of the webmaster or the limits of the website authoring tool; the color pallets they chose from may have been limited. Some of my additions were, in the end, best guesses as to EXACT color.

I found these Wikipedia pages particularly helpful in finding good Hex color numbers (# followed by six letters or numbers) that called up a specific color.

Failing those many hundreds of colors, this website appears to provide an exhaustive list.

The ACHS Wikipedia page lists the colors of many of their member organizations. Jax MN (talk) 17:07, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Organization of lists[edit]

The lists were divided into non-scholastic and scholastic, with the latter having secondary sections for college, high schools, local (college), and vocationatonal. However, many of the societies at colleges are not scholastic, meaning members are not selected on the basis of academic performance. Rather than untangle that, it makes more sense to change the main section to college, vocational, high school, and community/other. Rublamb (talk) 23:41, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]