Manassas Awards Store Provides Guide to Award Colors

 

If you have been assigned the task of purchasing awards for an upcoming competition, you may be feeling overwhelmed. If you would like to select the correct awards, it is essential to understand the history awards, especially when it comes to the traditional colors for places. Award Crafters, a Manassas awards store, has put together a guide below to help you select the best colors for each winner. 

 

First Place Winners: Traditionally, both gold and blue are colors representing 1st place. The gold medal standard is carried over from the Olympics, where gold medals are awarded to the winners in each sport. Gold medals are attributed to first place based on the rarity of the element itself. 

 

Second Place Winners: The appropriate colors for second place are both silver and red. Just as gold medals originated from the Olympics, so did the idea of silver medals for second place. Silver is the second rarest of the three elements usually awarded in competitions, and it has come to symbolize the second-place winner. 

 

Third Place Winners: Third place is traditionally marked by presenting winners with bronze or white. Like the elements before, bronze is also a traditional Olympic element and is the third in rarity among the three elements awarded. 

 

Additionally, if you would like to award winners beyond 4th place, a traditional color is associated with each place. Below you will find the breakdown of each place and ribbon color: 

 

Place Ribbon Color 

1st Blue 

2nd Red 

3rd White 

4th Yellow 

5th Green 

6th Pink 

7th Purple 

8th Brown 

9th Grey 

10th Light Blue 

 

Overall, we hope the above guide will help make your ribbon and custom medal selection processes easier. Feel free to reach out to us at Award Crafters for help with any award or trophy needs! 

 

Since 1964 Award Crafters has been designing, manufacturing and distributing Awards and Recognition Items to Local, State and Federal Government Agencies. With more than 400 current supplier partnerships, (some dating back to the 1960s) you can be confident that if we don't make it in house, we can get it. 

Award Crafters, Inc.  

8854 Rixlew Lane 

Manassas, VA 20109 

(703) 818-0500 

www.awardcrafters.com