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Second and Chalmers

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Second and Chalmers
mattcoldagelli said:
Does it?

These two non-matching Cs work just fine:
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You make a logo into a standard font and it will look distorted and horrible. Lettering should not be as stylized as a one-letter logo.

Or try and incorporate a letter logo into the typeface and you end up here:

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georgeuremovich

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Second and Chalmers said:
And as for OSU and Texas, what's going on there is that the football uniforms haven't changed since the Johnson Administration, and they have had enormous on-field success in them decade after decade after decade.

Pretending that Illinois has that isn't just bad design, it's pathetic.
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Didn't claim that, just that a long traditional looks have longer lives than what Nike, Addidas, et al have been putting out recently. Their new designs and brands are like a form of planned obsolence, few of which will be around 5-10 years from now. I don't think that we disagree that much. I just don't care for the straight-line, italicized letter and numeral fonts. If a more acceptable, font type and style was created, I have no problem with cross-sport consistency and uniformity. Just the one we have now ain't it, IMO. Now get off of my lawn, it's time for my nap.
 
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illini80

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I'm always amazed at how into the unis people get. Do we (Illinois) even get much say in them? Nike pretty much calls the shots it sounds like as far as when and what direction they want.
 
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SycIllini

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Sycamore, Illinois
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I am ok with trying a different style or font once in awhile but, one home and one away is plenty.
 
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Bailey

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Los Angeles
Bailey
illini80 said:
I'm always amazed at how into the unis people get. Do we (Illinois) even get much say in them? Nike pretty much calls the shots it sounds like as far as when and what direction they want.
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While probably true, I think it's generally characteristic of a fanbase who's program has some history & culture. They're probably not hand wringing about this all that much in, say, Evanston :)

And it sure beats the hell out of apathy, which gets more important every year we cell dwell.
 
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Ol Dirty Gamer

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So I don’t have much of an opinion on basketball uni’s, as long as it’s something current/potential players are attracted to; but now i have a huge gripe with the zig zags.
I’m at the gym and there’s a dude here with some generic gym shorts with the same zig zag design on them. THEY’RE NOT ILLINI shorts!! Where’s the love, NIKE??!
 
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CHEEF

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I'm hoping they can use the classic collegiate font for FIGHTING ## ILLINI with some simple, nice stripes down the side. Big fan of the Michigan and Kansas unis that have stripes around the edge of the arms and neck.
 
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CtownILL

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Hope you like the zig zags


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FiveStar

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ChazzReinhold said:
So it's a bunch of zig zags and a large shield front and back?
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Zig zags all around similar to a striped referee shirt. Ridiculously oversized shield in the front and back with the number written sideways a la the Jordan brand All-Star jerseys. Fighting Illini nowhere to be found on the jersey, but it’s definitely written out to make sure you say the “s” in Illinois.
 
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BananaShampoo

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Captain 'Paign
Phoenix, AZ
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FiveStar said:
Zig zags all around similar to a striped referee shirt. Ridiculously oversized shield in the front and back with the number written sideways a la the Jordan brand All-Star jerseys. Fighting Illini nowhere to be found on the jersey, but it’s definitely written out to make sure you say the “s” in Illinois.
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Illinoisssssssssssss :thumb:
 
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KrushCow31

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Former Krush Cow
Chicago, IL
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FiveStar said:
Zig zags all around similar to a striped referee shirt. Ridiculously oversized shield in the front and back with the number written sideways a la the Jordan brand All-Star jerseys. Fighting Illini nowhere to be found on the jersey, but it’s definitely written out to make sure you say the “s” in Illinois.
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I heard the alternatives have FIGHTING ILLINI in big letters on the front in a slightly different orange but the I's actually are replaced with 1s for real that are 1 size larger than the rest of the font to symbolize we are the best.

1LL!
1N1!
We are #1!
 
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