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Here's a new one for me: I think the Buffalo Bills logo would look better if the colors were reversed, a red buffalo leaping through a blue streak. And would tie-in better to their older logo, which was also a red buffalo.

Thanks for the tips, that helped a lot. I found that using the "Trim" option let me easily get rid of excess points, too.

Does anyone know how I can create a drop shadow effect similar to the old Lakers' jersey numbers? I know how to do offset paths, but then is it just a matter of moving it into position behind the number? Because I've tried that and I can't create the look I want.

Does anyone know why text size in Illustrator never matches up with either the H value or when I create outlines? For example, I put some text onto an image and set the size to 3.75 inches. The H value, however, reports the size as 4.3 inches, and if I was to convert the text into an outline, it would be set at the size of 2.55 inches. Converting to outline also affects my X value, as it changes. This seems unique to Illustrator... When I use Inkscape, it doesn't seem to have any wonky issues at all regarding text.

I used to not be a fan of roundels, myself, but they can look very nice if done right. I really love the Blue Jays' roundel, for example. Really wraps the design together nicely. But on the other hand, I was never a fan of the Red Sox roundel, because I feel just the sox logo on its own works much better.

Here's a new one for me: The more I watch the Yanks and Giants play, the more I realize that I really like the look of NNOB. It makes the numbers a little larger and just has a nice, clean look to it. I remember when the Dodgers did this for a couple season back in the mid-2000s and I liked it then, and I still like it now. I wish more MLB teams would go back to NNOB, and maybe even see the practice in other leagues.

I think the Kings looked better when they had Laker colors, rather than the Raider colors they have now.

I've heard the opposite argument: some feel that having your jersey number retired is even more significant than making the Hall of Fame. Since usually (not always), retired jersey numbers are given to those players who spent their entire career with one team and helped to bring said team one or multiple championships. The only thing I disagree with is league-wide retirement. While I certainly understand and appreciate the impact that players like Gretzky and Robinson had on their respective leagues, I still feel only the teams those players actually played for should retire their numbers.

That's terrible logic for keeping a uniform, though. You shouldn't judge whether a team should keep a set solely based on how well they played in them. There's got to be some aesthetics/fashion judgment, too. I agree. Should the White Sox still be wearing their 1980s striped jerseys today if they happened to win a lone championship while wearing them? It's terrible logic, not my logic, but can you deny that winning "freezes" a team's design? No, I don't think winning a championship means your uniform design should never be changed again. If a team just happened to wear a championship wearing bright neon colors and spandex, I don't think that's a timeless look they should never leave. For example, I think the Diamondbacks look better now than they did in 2001, despite winning a championship in their purple pinstripes. While I think they should have kept purple in place of red, I think their uniform changes were overall positive.

That's terrible logic for keeping a uniform, though. You shouldn't judge whether a team should keep a set solely based on how well they played in them. There's got to be some aesthetics/fashion judgment, too. I agree. Should the White Sox still be wearing their 1980s striped jerseys today if they happened to win a lone championship while wearing them?

Yeah, I was thinking I could copy/paste that anchor point three times, then do an average between the three to create a new point, which should fix the stroke issue. I'll try that, anyway.

I do have another question regarding the same image, though: I want the stroke to be pointy, not stubbed. I've set my Miter join to a high value (I think 8), so it does the appearance I want at the bottom, but not at the top left, around the snout. I thought it was just a matter of making the value a higher number, but it's not working. The snout only has a single anchor point, so I can't figure out why it's not pointy: See how it's a flat stroke, rather than continuing the point or w/e, like on the part below?

Wow, thanks a ton! That's exactly what I've been trying to figure out for a very long time. That really helps me out a lot.

I've been having an issue in Illustrator, and wondering if anyone can help me with it: Say I have an image that has numerous objects within. What I want to do is add just a single stroke around all of them, rather than each individual object. I can't figure out how to do this. Here's my image (a recoloring of the Marlins logo): What I want to do is add a black stroke/outline around the two distinct regions. But if I try to do this now, even if I create compound paths, it creates a stroke around all the objects, which I don't want. I think my solution is somewhere in the Pathfinder settings, perhaps joining/merging something. But I'm not sure.

I don't think it gets flack because it's a horrible logo, but just because it doesn't really work with the Blue Jays at all. They were never previously associated with a "T." The jay was given arms and a tattoo. It seems like it emphasized red over blue. And, of course, it replaced their original logo, which lasted two decades and was associated with back-to-back world championships. This logo came at the tail end of their somewhat lackluster late 90s/early 00s era.

I think it helps matters a lot, though, that the Dbacks won the WS in their 90s colors.

I loved the Blue Jays look with black, blue, and gray. Uniqueness no longer gets you anything apparently. It would have been passable if the team was actually just called the "Jays" or their colors had always been black, silver and blue or w/e they used on the '04-'11 sets.

As horrible as the Blue Jays' 2004-2011 look was, I do think having a graphite/gray cap should get some points for, at the very least, being "unique."

I like the new Marlins logo.

I liked when baseball had only four divisions instead of six. But if they were to go back to that, one division in each league would have to have six franchises. But, unlike the 1969-1993 system which only had a LCS, I'd still have a LDS: the weaker wild card would play the higher division winner and the stronger wild card would play the weaker division winner. Both rounds would be best of seven. The reason I liked the older setup was because it seemed to create better pennant/playoff races.

Speaking of the Penguins, I have never cared much for the "robo penguin" logo of the 90s. I've tried to like it, I really have, but I just don't. And the real presser is I don't really like the Penguins' current logo, either.

They did start life as the Los Angeles Angels, though. And it's not like people who live in LA really accept the Angels as "LA's baseball team," anyway.

I agree. I love these.