Honor Cords – Bronze

Bronze Honor Cords, sometimes also known as antique gold honor cords, are frquently used as a third color for olympic-type awards ceremonies (with gold and silver as the higher ranking honors). Sets comes with two twisted cords, shipped together tied or separately, however you choose. Made from rayon (we do not offer silk). You can mix and match different color cords together.

Alternative names for these products are honors cord, honor chords, and honors chords.

Typical Uses

These bronze honor cords are typically used for recognition of individual achievement and participation. They’re generally worn during a commencement ceremony, often when gold and silver cords are also used. Honor chords are used by colleges, universities, community college, high schools, and some middle schools and homeschools.

Who Buys Honor Cords

Usually purchased by a member of an honors society, fraternity, sorority, department recognition coordinator, or for summa cum laude, magna cum laude, or cum laude awards.

Honor Societies using Bronze

Bronze and antique gold has found its way into a few honor society ceremonies for college and university graduations, and is becoming more popular. The following honor societies use bronze or antique gold honor cords:

Alpha Sigma Lambda

Delta Tau Alpha

There are additional honor societies that utilize bronze or in their ceremonies. Some also use a variation on that color. If your honor society uses antique gold, and isn’t listed above, drop us an email and let us know. We can add your name to the list.

This Bronze Color

A frequent use of bronze honors chords is for a third-ranking award. For example, a Summa Cum Laude might get gold cords, while a Magna Cum Laude might get a silver cords, antique gold being reserved for a Cum Laude award.

This particular shade of bronze runs to the antique gold side of the spectrum, and is almost a gold-green color. Some people think of bronze as a brownish color. Please note that these cords are closer to the yellow and green spectrum of colors than the brown side of the color scale.

Gold and Bronze are often associated with coins, bullion, and money. Bronze in particular is an olympic award color.

Academic regalia such as graduate hoods use yellow or gold to indicate degrees in one of the following, in no particular order:

Sanitary Science, Engineering, Social Service, Environmental Science, Agriculture. Social Work, Criminology, Science, Mathematics, Physics, Urban Life, Civil Engineering. Military Science, Economics, Social Science, Nursing, Library Science. Police Science, Philanthropy, Industrial Arts.

How to Buy

Prices range from $8 to $12 (plus shipping) a set, depending on the quantity you buy. Bulk discounting is available. We offer two ways to buy these cords. The easiest purchase method is to Buy Online .

If your honor society would like to purchase a bulk amount of honors products, please let us know. We may also be able to come to an agreement whereby you contract with Academic to supply all your cords to your various members across the country through our website. As a smaller business than most of our competition, we are often in a position to be flexible about various joint ventures with societies and similar organizations.

Colors

The colors generally available include those listed below. Please note that the colors you see on this page may not be accurate (monitor settings differ). If you would like a free swatch sample, they are included when you request a copy of our catalog.

Those individualized pages include information on what that color symbolizes, honor societies associate with that color, academic regalia using that color, and other useful information.