BallWonk Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Maybe it's just something in the air -- my lingering wish that the team would honor the Grays legacy in DC, or those terrific LLWS uniforms, or the fact that the Cardinals are coming to town -- but I decided I wanted to see the Nationals with more piping. Lots of it, and really thick, too, not the thin three-color strips they use now. Plus, I wanted to try out a custom script in place of the current block letters to try to integrate the pretzel W a little more into the overall look.The piping does look a lot like what the Cardinals once wore, but it's been a long time since anybody used that kind of piping and anyway, back then the Cardinals were sort of the national team for a large section of the country. But mainly it's about the Grays, who wore similar piping in the same era. In addition, I've eliminated any red/blue crossover. At home, the Nats are strictly red and gold; on the road, they wear only blue and gold. That elevates gold from a highlight to the team's identity color. With a home alternate I'll post in a following message, the Nats would have three "official" caps to market: Red W at home, blue W for home alt, and blue DC on the road.HomeRoadc&c requested! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted August 26, 2005 Author Share Posted August 26, 2005 Home Alt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniguy22 Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 I like everything but the DC on the roads and the shoulder patch. Other than that these look very nice. The piping is unique but I like it, and I love that road script. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen93 Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 wow, those rock, i would be honored if your nats kicked my phillies ass in those unis! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
officeglenn Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 I wouldn't mind seeing just a touch of blue in the home set and a touch of red in the road and alt sets, just to tie everything together. Just a tiny bit of each would be enough.Love the "Washington" script on the roads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sideshowbob Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 not bad, the home alternate and the road ones are the best, maybe add some blue to the home uniform, other than that good job. New and Improved Adrenaline Online:http://adrenalinedesignstudio.synthasite.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmackman Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 The piping is cool, but it reminds me of watching this year's LLWC. "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you'd better be running." - Unknown | Check out my articles on jerseys at Bacon Sports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCBoy Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 If they wore those, they would be wearing the BEST uniforms in the MLB.Absoloutley Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Those are really sharp, man. Nice homage to the Grays on the alt, I'm loving the DC road cap and the script, great use of simple colors. I wouldn't blink if they swapped their current set for these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogbarks55 Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Great work. The only thing I'd change is your number font. And since you used the names of former presidents, why didn't you use their number in order of succesion. If you did Ol' Hickory is #7, Honest Abe is #16 and Harry is #33. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilaLogos Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 is that script custom or a font, if its a font i need to know the name! I think this is a great concept. I would've been down had the Nats gone with a more traditional look like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camden Crazy Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 If you would go with red the whole way through and switch the number font, it'd be awesome, but still good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoRsAndTwoLs Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 I'm inclined to agree that the script (which I love) and the numbers (which I don't totally focus on here) don't exactly play well together, but the script hella just made me "ooh." Every Fifth Day is a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted August 28, 2005 Author Share Posted August 28, 2005 It's a custom script. I've only made about 18 lower-case letters and a half dozen caps. I created it for my Rhubarbs fantasy concept, so I had to expand my alphabet a bit to cover the letters in Washington and Nationals. As for the numbers, they're based significantly on Futura, which brought to my mind the mid-twentieth century look that until recently dominated the federal government's aesthetic presence in Washington. Lots of federal buildings from that narrow steel-and-glass era, and until recently the signage had this sort of look too. You still see a lot of things around town with Futura-esque fonts, so I thought it would help cement the uniform's local identity. Not to say that it's the best choice for number font, but that was what I was thinking at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rvieth07319 Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 those are sweet nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBTV Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Minor nitpick here...The lowercase "n" in your script is IMO a little too wide. The blank space between the legs of the 'n' is wider than the blank space in the other letters. If this was tightened up, there would be enough room to connect the 'o' in 'Nationals' to the 'n'. "The views expressed here are mine and do not reflect the official opinion of my employer or the organization through which the Internet was accessed." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winghaz Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I've never liked the stripes down the sides of the sleeves, but for an obvious reason:When I was playing pee-wee baseball, our arch-rivals wore uniforms with with stripes down the sides of the sleeves. That was old fashioned in the 1960s, and we thought it looked pretty dorky. Heck, we thought the kids on that other team were pretty dorky, too. So, even after all these years, I still haven't learned to appreciate the stripes down the sleeves.And by the way, we always kicked those arch-rivals' butts in baseball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallWonk Posted August 28, 2005 Author Share Posted August 28, 2005 Minor nitpick here...The lowercase "n" in your script is IMO a little too wide. The blank space between the legs of the 'n' is wider than the blank space in the other letters. If this was tightened up, there would be enough room to connect the 'o' in 'Nationals' to the 'n'. Thanks! That's an awesome critique. I'll play around with the "n" and the other "n"-like letters a bit more. Couple of notes: I designed the letters so that the spaces between vertical elements would be constant, so that, say, the total distance and stem placement in "iui" would be the same as "nn" or "uu" or "nu". However, I didn't totally achieve this, as you can see with the "t"s and a few other letters. And the "o" doesn't connect to the "n" in "Nationals" only because I forgot to connect it. Didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. The "o" connects to the "n" in "Washington" -- I made a little "o-to-n" connector and everything. D'oh! I have a couple of letters I designed to form breaks in the script - "w" and "f" for example - but I made connectors to bridge all the other letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benJAMMIN039 Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Love the wordmark but i think the stripes down the shoulders look too little league world series-ish. Great Job though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HatManTC Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 I think they should wear the interlocking "DC" logos more. by RoscoeUA by gingerbreadman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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