MJD7

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but it's interesting to point out that most of us collectively clamored for brown & yellow to make its return in MLB for literal decades. Just because the uniform design itself is pretty wacky, that doesn't mean that brown & yellow couldn't work as a football color scheme. Wyoming is a perfect example. I would just default to royal & orange for the Broncos in particular because they had that scheme for a longer time and it's what people more easily associate them with. EDIT: Yeah, @Brave-Bird 08 & @Sec19Row53 said it more succinctly than I did.

Yeah, that too. The two go hand in hand for me.

Just because I wouldn’t mistake the Broncos for the Bears unless they played each other in Chicago, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be nice to have an extra unique color scheme in the NFL. I don’t really care what logo they use, but I’m in favor of the Broncos going back to royal blue.

This pretty much exactly describes my general rule of thumb when it comes to uniform changes. Some rare changes toe the line a bit between “redesign” & “rebrand” though, the Twins being the most recent example. I personally consider theirs to be a “rebrand” since, even though they kept the same basic color scheme, every single logo & wordmark was updated & made consistent into one new “brand.” Most other cases are pretty clear-cut, though, such as the 2020 Rams being a “rebrand” and the Cardinals’ new uniforms being a “redesign,” since they kept their logo, colors, & wordmarks.

I’ve been meaning to comment on the Rangers’ City Connect, but since they wore them for the first time last night: … I … kind of dig the dark pants look, especially for the Rangers..? I don’t think I could explain why if I tried, but it works. The reveal made it look black though, which I liked more in this particular case than the dark navy. The logos themselves are alright, but I like the unconventional placement of the logo on the right chest. I wish they made the “rope” striping seen on the socks more prominent, as that would’ve been a cool element to elevate. Overall, given my usual caveat that I still don’t like that the City program was carried over to MLB, I’d put the Rangers solidly in the good-but-not-great range. As for the Mariners leak, I like that wordmark & number font a lot more than I expected. It’s a rare case where beveling works, as do the dropshadows, mostly because of the colors they went with. I’m not big on the patch logo, but everything else is nice. I vastly prefer the M’s as a navy & teal team, but this seems to be about as good as they could’ve done with the blue & yellow.

He told me as much on Twitter:

If I may ask, did the helmet you see match what was released? I’d just be curious about the discrepancy between that and the rumored changing color scheme.

An upgrade for sure, but an underwhelming one. They really do look like Ohio State, especially with the black alt. The addition of silver is incredibly perplexing when they had so many other more interesting colors they could have incorporated, which is a luxury very few other teams have. Copper, desert gray, orange, gold, or Arizona flag blue would have each been a better fit for the Cardinals than silver. I think the home uniform is fine, if not pretty uninspiring. The wordmark is a little too big and definitely too low because of the new template. With white pants though (which I do think we’ll see), it won’t look terrible. I think people will get used to this set once the dust settles. Realistically, it’s nearly exactly what most of us wanted from a Cardinals redesign, albeit with a few unnecessary (but thankfully not too intrusive) Nike flourishes. I think we all got caught up a bit in the hype about a rumored new color scheme and outside-the-box design decisions. The most interesting part now, for me at least, will be hearing more about @TruColor’s rumors he heard & the helmet he saw, even though they clearly turned out to be untrue. I would love to hear as much about that as possible since, as expected, it seems more intriguing than the design we got.

Revised prediction right ahead of the reveal: As much as I trust @TruColor, I have a feeling the changes are not going to be as extreme as we thought, given that the current logo & wordmark appear to be all over the event. The maroon & orange color scheme did seem interesting, though.

@Jeffery posted a concept featuring orange/copper/whatever-you-wanna-call-it flakes on a white helmet, to which @TruColor replied: I’d assume that means no orange flakes.

@TruColor already debunked this, though if there are going to be flakes, I’d want them to be copper, personally. If not, desert gray.

I can’t lie, this annoys me a bit every time I see it because I consistently read it at first as a typo of “Saints.” Could it at least be typed out as “snatiT”?

Final predictions before tomorrow, based off of nothing other than @TruColor’s hints & my own guesses: I don’t think the red shade will be ask dark as Washington’s maroon, but I could see it being a bit darker than their current red. I think they’ll pair it with a “desert” gray, a bigger presence of athletic gold, and maybe the slightest bit of orange, similar to the state flag. At that point I’d like to see them just drop gold entirely and replace it with orange, for a more unique color scheme, but it doesn’t seem like they’ll go that route. I’d prefer they go with “desert gray” specks on the helmet, but maybe they’ll be gold? Something to do with sunshine? I think we’ll see the 3D logo, but in desert cardinal colors. I have no idea what color the facemask will be, but my guess is it’ll be white, since every other color seems to be off the table. I think an orange or a red facemask would’ve been nice. I can see the jersey having the Arizona flag stemming from below the collar, much like @Jeffery’s concept, but fitting to the new Vapor Fusion template. I have a feeling his concept might end up looking better than the final product, though. If there are indeed 4 jerseys, I have no idea what they could all be… Cardinal & white are a given (I hope), but beyond that… maybe desert gray and gold, with one of the two being the Color Rush? Who knows. Even though I likely won’t be able to see it until Friday morning because I’m 6 hours ahead of the East Coast currently, I’m still quite excited for this reveal.

It’s fine that you don’t like the Twins new uniforms, but I’m going to argue against the idea that their new uniform set isn’t “unique.” Check out this uniform, which in my opinion is better than anything I’ve dreamt up myself for the Twins in the 10+ years I’ve done concepts: Compared to all of the other navy & red teams in MLB (a total of 7, including the Twins), this navy alternate is the only one that utilizes: single-layer, no outline wordmark & numbers, a tri-color batting helmet (at home at least), splitting apart of the white & red (besides the sleeve stripes, which is one minor gripe I have with this jersey), and the Nationals are the only other team to employ a contrasting front number, albeit with outlines. Similarly, they are the only other team whose navy alternate is worn at home & on the road. The Twins’ previous navy alternate(s) did not have any traits unique to themselves. The new home uniform has a similar uniqueness among navy & red teams, in that it foregoes outlines & splits up the navy & the red, allowing each color to “pop” individually. Shoehorning an extra unnecessary color into the scheme on only half of your uniforms is not the only way to achieve “uniqueness.”

If the helmet is indeed going to be “radical” change, this would’ve been pretty much my exact guess on what it would look like… and honestly I wouldn’t have minded it. Makes me all the more curious to see what the actual design will be. Also, looking at the jersey design, this seems like the perfect opportunity on Nike’s end to shoehorn the Arizona flag design in to fit with their incoming Vapor Fusion (?) template.

These are the three best combos of this set in my opinion.

I love that they’re wearing the white-panel batting helmet with it. Looks beautiful.

Agreed. If they had to use gold, it should’ve been a shade closer to that patch logo: The patch gold is lighter, helping with the “muddiness,” it resembles the cream of their throwbacks, and, in my opinion, looks closer to the color of the limestone the gold was inspired by in the first place. The shade they went with was way too mustard-y, to where it almost looks like it could be athletic gold or even orange.

Israel looks great! Like @coco1997, I think something could be done to make the logos on the powder away more readable, I do think there are a lot of options for how to do that though: You could make the logos white, possibly with a royal blue outline, or blue with a white outline. Making the pinstripes royal blue might help, too. For Nicaragua, I’m not sure you need two different shades of blue, especially when they appear to be so similar. The added gold makes me think of Colombia at first, but given that Nicaragua doesn’t have any red, and there appears to be precedent, it works. Looking forward to the last couple of teams!

I would not have been able to tell at all that this was your first baseball design had you not said so! South Korea looks great, I love the idea to use double-blue, and you chose the perfect team to use it for, I think. The font choice is great, and I love the light blue away and the royal alternate. I’d love to see you try to tackle some other countries, if you’re inclined to do so!

Catching up a bit on all this news: Cardinals It’s wild that this seems to finally actually be happening. The rumors of a more maroon and orange color scheme sound incredibly intriguing, I honestly wouldn’t be upset if they go for it. It does make me wonder why they would release the draft cap with the current (possibly outgoing) scheme though: are they manufacturing some with the red & yellow, & then more caps with maroon & orange after the rebrand is unveiled? Or, will they just send fans who ordered one already the maroon one once it’s released? I guess we’ll see what happens. The concept above is pretty nice, too, I think it shows that at minimum Arizona could afford to add prominence to some sort of secondary color, be it gold, blue, copper, desert gray, whatever. Panthers It’s a bit disappointing that they aren’t going for a full redesign, to be honest. However, I do think they could have afforded to just get a custom number font & call it a day. Dropping silver would be an added bonus. It seems like they are doing neither of those though, and just changing the blue. I’ll wait to see a better comparison, but if the rumors are any indication, I honestly think Nike’s blue looks better than Carolina’s “Process Blue.” It’s brighter and pops off of the black better. This change looks like it may be a downgrade. I was a proponent of them dropping the contrasting collar, but after seeing the mockup, I’m not so sure anymore. I don’t think they’ll end up doing it though.

Couldn’t agree more. It looked even better with the white-panel helmet when they were hitting. The navy “Twin Cities” uniform they’re wearing today looks nice too. I might be getting annoying by gawking over these new uniforms so much, but I really do love them & think they are near-perfect. It’s especially refreshing after the previous mishmash of a set, which I criticized frequently.

Thank you so much! That truly means a lot. Also, for anyone interested, the WBC jerseys can now be viewed all together on my website: https://mjd7design.myportfolio.com/world-baseball-classic

Aaaand that'll do it! Thanks to everybody who's followed along, and as always, I hope you enjoyed seeing the designs as much as I enjoyed creating them!

Venezuela I went back to their original 2006 WBC style of different-colored headspoon piping and sleeve piping. I also kept the flag colors for the alternate, like they did in real life this year.