Honoring our past. Always evolving. pic.twitter.com/BBWqIG7p6p — Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) April 13, 2020 With no advance warning, the Colts announced their uniform and logo changes yesterday. The video shown above …
Category: Typography
Tales from the Dream Shop: Restoring a Joe Torre Jersey
For all phtoos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Back in January we had a guest entry from Bill Henderson about his restoration of an old Mickey Mantle jersey. That post …
Talking Soccer Typography with MLS Font Designer Rick Banks
For most of today’s images, click to enlarge When FC Cincinnati announced the signing of forward Yuya Kubo last month (above), it provided our first sneak peek at MLS’s intriguing …
Uni Watch DIY Project: The Coolest Building Blocks Ever
For all photos, click to enlarge [Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from reader Loren Southard, who’s going to tell us about a tremendous DIY project. Enjoy. — …
Cursive Writing Makes Comeback — on the Hardcourt
Click to enlarge Reader Bryan Beban tipped me off yesterday to something interesting: The road uniforms for Eastern Washington — a school that plays in the Big Sky Conference — …
Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Perfect’ NOB?
Sometimes people get in touch with me and propose good topics to write about. If I’m busy, those topics sometimes get back-burnered — and then I sometimes forget about them. …
A Uni Watch Look at Frank Robinson
Click to enlarge Frank Robinson died yesterday. You probably know that he was MLB’s first black manager, that he’s still the only player to have been named the MVP of …
World Cup Off to a Uni-Riffic Start
That sound you heard in the background yesterday was about half of the civilized world noticing that Saudi Arabia player Salem Al-Dawsari was playing with an upside-down “8” in Saudis’ …
Steelers Unveil 1978 Throwbacks
The Steelers unveiled their new throwback yesterday. As had been expected, it’s a late-1970s design, which means that only changes are the block typography and the removal of the logo …
The Titans Unveil Their New Uniform Set
Click to enlarge The Titans revealed their new uniform set last night. I gave my assessment of the new look in this ESPN piece, which was published last night. (In …
A New (to me) Form of NOB Arching
Click to enlarge When it comes to arched NOBs, there’s radial arching and vertical arching — and then there’s the style shown above. It’s sort of like vertical arching, because …
The Thick and the Thin of Saints History
Click to enlarge The photo shown above was taken during the Saints’ inaugural season, 1967. Take a look at the two players in the center — quarterback Gary Cuozzo and …
The Miami Heat’s Early Uniforms Were a Mess
The Heat didn’t waste any time getting their new black throwbacks onto the court. After announcing them on Tuesday, they wore them on Wednesday night against the Bulls (lots of …
A Cincinnati Reds History Mystery
Time for a trip down another rabbit hole today, people. This one involves a four-season stretch in Reds history, from 1968 through 1971. Let’s start by consulting Dressed to the …
McAuliffe-ology
Many fans refer to the Red Sox number font as “the Red Sox font.” But as serious uni-watchers know, the font is actually called McAuliffe, and was created by the …