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Original Dallas Mavs logo - borrowed element?


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Apologies if this has been discussed before. I did a brief search but didn't see much.

 

I ran across this image today in a FB group...

 

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Notice anything about the Midwest Bank and Trust Company logo?

 

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The fonts are very close, and the bank's circle is nearly matched to the Mavs' basketball relative to the M. I tried finding a larger version of the bank logo, but it looks like the bank folded a decade ago.

 

Thoughts?  I think the CCSLC has convicted for less than this.

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They're both italiced Times style fonts. One is in a circle, another is a basketball. Nothing is borrowed from each other IMO. I think they're both just very simple, common elements that coincidences are bound to happen. You can see below they really don't line up except for in a couple minor spots. The angle of italic isn't even the same.

 

 

 

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Back then, you traced or transferred your letters from actual pages of type, and there were’t very many fonts compared to today.

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