Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-26397825-20151121075509

Why would you need team trimming? RWBY is ruby coloured for the team theme, right? Other than Weiss, who has red on the inside of her jacket, none of the members other than the leader actually follow the team colour. In JNPR, Jaune wears blue jeans and has yellow hair, Pyrrha has gold on her armour and Nora has a little bit of blue on her dress, though it's the wrong shade and so minor it's not really a 'theme tie in', but Ren doesn't fit the juniper theme at all. Yatsuhashi has tanned skin, and that's the only way he ties into the CFVY brown theme - he wears green.

Heck look ar CRDL. None of them actually wear cardinal red anywhere on their clothing; Cardin is silver and a brassy brown, Dove is grey and bronze, Sky is various shades of blue, and Russel wears green. The only 'red' thing about CRDL is that Russel means red, and Cardin is named for the bird (that last point is debatable).

Team names can be whatever, and the characters don't exactly have to all tie into the colour. It might be preferable for the leader to match the team name, but the others don't have to do any such thing.