Two recent purchases have made me appreciate the art that is a color coordinated parallel. Occasionally a card's colored parallel will match up well with the player's photo/team colors.
Here are two such examples that I can think of off the top of my head:
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| 2005-06 Upper Deck Rookie Debut - Gold |
I'm loathed to actively seek out a Los Angeles Lakers card. The 2008 and 2010 NBA Championship Finals with the Boston Celtics and the Lakers are the primary cause behind my dislike for the Lakers. The Celtics should have captured their second title with the "Big Three" (or four if you counted Rondo).
Anyway, I'm a Gonzaga basketball fan, which is the primary reason I was drawn to this card. The other reason being that I think the set design is top notch. With the photo of Turiaf in his college uniform I consider this part of my Gonzaga PC. Even though it is properly listed as a Lakers card.
As much as hate to admit it, the card matches the Lakers' purple and gold colors very well. As a bonus, this card is low-numbered out of 50.
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| 2017 Topps Chrome - Green |
Whereas the previous card look nice due to the design elements coming together, here the photo matches up with the parallel color. The Mariners' "Northwest Green" uniforms debuted in the 90s and hung around for a couple years. After some sporadic appearances in the 2000s, these jerseys became a regular fixture in the Mariners' uniform rotation in 2011.
The greens don't match up perfectly (side note: at one time my wife legitimately thought I was color blind) but I think they match up enough to consider this a color coordinated parallel.
Do you have any favorite color coordinated parallels?
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