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The Cardinals twitter and website have rolled out their current look for Draft graphics. Still the same colors, wordmark, and logo (albeit with a flex chrome effect, and a reverse ghost version in the background). Even if things are changing, they're keeping tight lips and the status quo, even four days before the suspected reveal.

4 minutes ago, TruColor said:

No - not that crazy. The hints are all out there about the helmets...when you see them, you'll say "of course".

 

I wonder if their black alternates were a “trial run” for the 3D decal effect. I really liked how it looked. Wonder if they could do something similar on a lighter shell.

On 4/8/2023 at 11:07 PM, DouglasQuaid said:

The twins look great, but I'm not sold on the number font.

This is my take, too. It's as if they designed the number font before they knew they were changing the logo.

Titans have officially teased Oilers throwbacks via this oil-barrel teaser video

2 hours ago, BadSeed84 said:

The past draft hats for the Cardinals would usually just be Red, White & Black

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I wouldn't put too much stock in the yellow-heavy draft cap. Looking at Fanatics, every team has a "Draft" and "Draft on Stage" hat. The "On Stage" hat has the gray crown with the team's nickname in their primary color (except for the Raiders to avoid black clash) stroked in black. The "Draft" hat has the primary-color shell with the name in whatever the team's non-black-or-white secondary color is. The Dolphins have an aqua hat with orange letters, but they certainly don't feature orange that much, so I don't think using yellow as the secondary color for Arizona is necessarily indicative of anything.

3 hours ago, cajunaggie08 said:

UMass has a new logo which is supposed to me used in conjunction with the "UMass" logo that is currently the primary.

 

Is it me or are the legs ever so slightly skewed inward?

I wouldn't put too much stock in the yellow-heavy draft cap. Looking at Fanatics, every team has a "Draft" and "Draft on Stage" hat. The "On Stage" hat has the gray crown with the team's nickname in their primary color (except for the Raiders to avoid black clash) stroked in black. The "Draft" hat has the primary-color shell with the name in whatever the team's non-black-or-white secondary color is. The Dolphins have an aqua hat with orange letters, but they certainly don't feature orange that much, so I don't think using yellow as the secondary color for Arizona is necessarily indicative of anything.

2 hours ago, gosioux76 said:

I live not far from SIUE and see their branding all around. While this isn't great, it corrects one thing that always bothered me: the different font used for the "e" in SIUE. 

 

I haven't been in this area long, but I've wondered whether that isn't rooted in some desire to create separation with SIU-Carbondale by emphasizing Edwardsville. 

I always typed it out as SIUe, despite their guidelines calling for SIUE. It puzzled me that the "e" dominated their graphical branding, but they didn't use it as a unique identifier in all forms. I understand the lowercase giving a sense of "lesser", but embrace what makes your brand different!

That being said, this new brand should serve them well. The corporate-y Helvetica "e" felt out of place in the athletic branding.

For an in-house job, especially at a mid-major such as SIUE, this is pretty solid work. I have a little experience with SIUE due to working at a (former) OVC school, and always felt like their SIUe wordmark was more suited for the academic side and never quite worked as athletics branding. I think this is an overwhelming upgrade for the Cougars.

As someone who has been in on the design process of Under Armour uniforms (via a supplier) at a mid-major college baseball program, UA's standard size for front logos is pretty limiting, especially compared to Nike or Adidas. Some premier UA programs, such as Auburn and Maryland, seem to be able to get more substantial logo sizes, but that's something that was not available to us.

Canada's uniform also seem very catalog-y design wise – pretty much straight from the new "Thief Faux" jersey option. That makes me wonder if Team Canada didn't work directly with UA to design their uniforms and instead used an UA partner, thus getting a "generic" uniform.

ECU unveiled... these.

New head coach and conference at my alma mater, Austin Peay, and looks like they'll have an... interesting uniform set. The cream and black jerseys, along with the pinstripe and cream pants are holdovers from last year, and the red and gray sets (script logotype designed by yours truly) are new. Seems like they'll have some unconventional combos, like the black jerseys and red pants on the front row.

20 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

There's also that red in the eye.

Fun fact about that red eye: the Ravens usage guide doesn't have a true black-white logo – the eye is always red. Small detail that especially stands out when paired with other one-color league logos or apparel collections. 

May just be me, I kind of liked the Goff-era Cal uniforms^{except the pants}. I think they were a victim of the Nike Flywire collar, but would look great now on one of the newer templates. They were in a way a precursor to the current Jags uni-set, which I am also a fan of.

9 hours ago, aawagner011 said:

I’m sure there’s something to do with the shape of the logo, but I haven’t seen anything on it yet.

Wouldn't be surprised if the inspiration for the overall art-decoish shape was pulled from the architecture around LA.

23 minutes ago, Indigo said:

If the only diference is the number font, isn't that the same thing as bringing back the throwback but replacing the font?

 

Placing all of the throwbacks' elemnets on the current jersey is the same thing as reverting to the throwbacks with the current number font.  Different wording, same result.

I didn't say to use the elements from the throwback jersey. I think if you add a single pants stripe and maybe another gold element it would elevate the whole set while keeping it minimal and using the color-blocking to provide contrast and let the colors stand out against each other.

If I had to choose one set as-is, I think the current uniform is better than the throwback on Nike's uniform cut.

Michigan staying in the Vapor Untouchable template.

5 minutes ago, Indigo said:

I wasn't alive to watch the 90s set in action, but it is still definitivley a better football uniform, solely because it has pants stripes.

Pants stripes is one of the handful of tweaks that the current set needs to be great – pants stripes, strokes on the numbers, and maybe a little more gold. It's a solid set – the teal pops off the black and white where the old set is more muddy, and the numerals are close enough to block to feel classic, but far enough away to be unique.

Speaking as someone who doesn't have the nostalgia for the '98 or early 2000s set, I agree with @Korkie. To me, the current set is closer to a great uniform than reverting to a throwback would be.

1 hour ago, Bathysphere said:

YES! I’ve been wondering where to complain about this. The ads make the page take forever to load, it almost never loads all at once on the first try, and frequently the entire page falls apart mid-scroll and I have to refresh several times to get it back to a proper readable website. Writing a post is nerve wracking because you have no idea when the website will spontaneously combust and you have to start over.  I’ve tried the notes app strategy, but whenever I paste text from an outside text box, it shows up in this font that is much bigger and uglier than the rest of the website. I know this community runs off of a generic message board shell, so whoever is responsible for that shell has some damn work to do web design-wise. It’s almost 2023!!

Also, the search function is borderline useless. Can't run searches back-to-back without getting hit with a cool-down timer.

20 hours ago, alxy8s said:

Speaking of Nike templates, it looks like PSU broke out the old Flywire jerseys for this shoot. They moved to the Vapor Untouchable template in 2018.

24 minutes ago, WestCoastBias said:

Is that a new Under Armour template?

According to the UA Team Catalog it's the new CompFit 3 template. $228 per jersey vs $260 for the AirVent template used by Auburn and other large programs.

4 minutes ago, aawagner011 said:

I don’t know if it’s actually happening, but there are heavy rumors that Auburn is bringing out orange jerseys for this weekend against Penn State. They are definitely wearing orange facemasks.

 

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CifLE8-r1PD/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

The instagram post has some more photos – including white pants and some ambiguous orange fabric.

1 hour ago, NH4 said:

Florida State is going all white 

 

It looks like they just took the same spear from the gold lids and slapped it on a white shell. Seems lazy. This would look so much better if they used a garnet/gold spear instead.

5 minutes ago, Germanshepherd said:

New NIU throwbacks, they’re….fine

 

 

Every clip in the video has block numbers, but the uniform has roman-style numbers. Is this based on an actual uniform or is a "throwback-style" uniform?