Colorado Rockies concept

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It's been a while, so I figured I'd revisit an oldie but goodie.  I don't have the uniforms as down pat as I'd like yet, and there are a couple more color schemes I'd like to try out, but here's the ID sheet.  Check out the old thread for reference...anyway, compared to 10 years ago, the scripts are admittedly only tweaked at most from what I did 10 years ago (though the tail of the Colorado script is now detached and starts in a curl, based on the 80s Denver Bears, mainly because the versions with an attached tail just looked too awkward to me), though I figured I'd take the baseball out of the mountain logo.  I was dissatisfied with the C I'd used in the first version, so I introduce a mountain CO as the new cap logo. 

In addition to the purple/lavender shown here, purple/sky blue, purple/blue/lavender, purple/green/lavender and purple/silver are all being considered.  If all goes well, jerseys are coming within the week. 

 

 

 

[Bomba Tomba]

Honestly I'd probably stick to this scheme, lavender is both underused and underrated

[coco1997]

So far so good! It's interesting to see a traditional baseball script used for a Rockies concept. The alternate wordmark feels like a glimpse at how the Rockies might have looked as an expansion team in the '70s or '80s. 

I think the cap logo could use a little tweaking, as something seems off about the inner mountain running into the opening of the "C." Honestly, I don't think you even need that smaller mountain in the logo. 

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On 5/7/2023 at 10:17 PM, Bomba Tomba said:

Honestly I'd probably stick to this scheme, lavender is both underused and underrated

My main conflict basically remains the same as it was a decade ago: I really like lavender as the secondary color...but I also really like light blue as the secondary.  Probably gonna post in at least two or three color schemes, but I'm leading off with lavender.

 

On 5/8/2023 at 8:54 AM, coco1997 said:

So far so good! It's interesting to see a traditional baseball script used for a Rockies concept. The alternate wordmark feels like a glimpse at how the Rockies might have looked as an expansion team in the '70s or '80s. 

I think the cap logo could use a little tweaking, as something seems off about the inner mountain running into the opening of the "C." Honestly, I don't think you even need that smaller mountain in the logo. 

As far as the alternate wordmark, you definitely got the decades right    And as far as the cap logo, I might post a version without the smaller mountain.  Making the whole thing read as a CO without making it too obvious/corny has been tricky (I didn't even really try for a CR...that was a corny, unbalanced mess in the sketching stage).  Didn't want just the C, there are enough of those caps already, but then again this would be different enough from the other three.

And regarding the first one...cmon now.  you've seen me make traditional scripts for the Blue Jays.  With their split.  This was nothing by comparison.

 

Anyway, I give you some color schemes I'm throwing out there, I'm probably not going to post uniforms for all of them, but then again I might.  In order...

A- purple/lavender, the darker lavender will be used only on a certain alternate uniform

B- purple/lavender/Avalanche blue

C-purple/green/lavender

D-ol' reliable purple/black/silver

E-purple/green/light blue

F-purple/mint green, the grayish green would be used for the roads

G-purple/dark red/gold, the closest I figure I'd go to a flag-based look without either using blue or the flag C for obvious reasons

H-purple/light blue/lavender...in this case, light blue would be the secondary, lavender would be the road

 

Purple/Lavender uniforms after the jump

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Purple/lavender...figured reinventing the wheel wasn't really in the cards here.  Might be a bit tough to see, but figured I'd have a small mountain in the middle of each sleeve's piping.  Do not adjust your monitor, yes folks, the roads are lavender.  For the folks who didn't feel like looking through the older thread, the scripts were based on the 1960s Denver Bears, though it's less obvious on the road script, where the detached tail I went with here looked less awkward than the versions in the older thread with attached tails.  

 

Figured I'd do something a bit different on the purple alt: the C on the left chest.  Also removed the small mountains from the sleeve piping in favor of having the primary as a sleeve patch....and for those who didn't look at the older thread, Nuggets tribute!  For those who did, I tweaked a few things: the mountain was altered a bit, cleaned up the script, and changed the collar and cuffs, as well as the pants stripes and cap logo, where I felt a CR would fit.

 

Figure I'll show the historic influences, so here ya go...and if anyone's wondering if I ever thought about something inspired by the "strike zone" uniform, I have indeed done a Rockies version of it.  That went about as well as Josh Rosen's NFL career  

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Tweaked the mountain C by removing the smaller mountain, and moving onto the variant scheme with Avs blue...I'll post alts later, the most obvious changes are to the caps, with the C now blue and the white cap replaced by one with a lavender crown, though I also used slightly different piping and added a blue outline to the scripts and numbers.  

 

Going the quick and dirty route tonight, though I'm planning to change things up more next.  Blue version of the Nuggets uniform and new purple jersey with blue placket here.