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Straight outta Champaign
but when their players can't read, it does allow them to find the open teammateAgreed. On a related note, it looks equally jarring/bad when a basketball jersey ditches words in favor of a logo like this hideous Iowa jersey:
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Well, that's because they are.
Because honesty is the Gritty Promise, I am going to admit, seeing this made me feel a little less pro-script. I hadn't fully digested how much of a fad this is, which means in five years it's going to be what everyone was doing five years ago.
I had the same reaction to that post, that I hadn't realized that everyone else is also doing some version of script. Still, I think the swooping characters in Illinois and Illini lend those words to a script font more than any of the other examples. The Rutgers jersey is objectively awful. The "Knights" looks like something a movie costume design team would create. And not even for the protagonists, but for one of the fictional teams in a playoff montage, to let the audience know, "These are not the good guys. This is a bad uniform for a forgettable team. Focus on the good guys."
This is an accurate description and I cannot unsee it.
217sports
- Springfield
Nike has templated all of their uniforms lately from football to soccer with unappealing results. I have very little faith we will get something outside of this and it will be boring.
socalini
- So Cali
Holy smokes. Yes, that is it exactly my point. I wonder if I had been subconsciously thinking of the Generals.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I just think there needs to be more white … it looks so “classic” that it’s TOO simple. It looks like we didn’t try, haha. I’d say at LEAST a white outline on the numbers/names (or white font with an orange outline).
Also, it works better with the blue uniforms, but I think the problem outlined above looks especially bad on our white uniforms. The orange numbers on a plain white jersey with plain pants NEEDS a blue outline to even start looking professional, IMO.
Ransom Stoddard
Ordained Dudeist Priest
- Bloomington, IL
It needs a better font for the numbers. If they're going to use the Block I, use block fonts for the numbers for consistency. It's a classic look.
MoCoMdIllini
- Montgomery County, Maryland
That's a good point. I wonder if I haven't been subconsciously bothered by the inconsistency.
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
Nike is infatuated with dark pants on their baseball jerseys, a sign? (probably not)
Maybe both?
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Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
i’m okay with those
Really all we need, and I bet we'll get something like this.
Just a few simple tweaks will make a world of difference.
redwingillini11
White and Sixth
- North Aurora
I think those look great
TentakilRex
- Land O Insects between Quincy-Macomb-Jacksonville
I will admit those jerseys are good, but it is lot easier to mess up the numbers with orange only. You don't need the white outline, but it makes designing a good jersey easier.
Looks like a uniform from a men's 60 and over softball league.Nike is infatuated with dark pants on their baseball jerseys, a sign? (probably not)
I agree with this. I didn't love this uni set at first, but it looks way better since Bret changed the helmet with the white facemask, stripe, and white around the block I. The blue mask and the weird orange outline on the I with an orange helmet were pretty brutal.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
I'd be open to no white outline (or white number with orange outline) on the home jerseys IF we switch to a more classic block lettering font.
However, I think I am prepared to die on the hill that white jerseys with plain orange font just look so boring and unimaginative. I am NOT endorsing a white helmet or all white uniform or anything else in particular about the two photos below, but these two examples are close enough that I think it illustrates my point of view in that it visually isolates the lettering itself:
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Again, I would have an orange helmet, and I would have a more "block" font than either of those two, along with other things. However, I think when just looking at that number on an all-white uniform, the second looks much, much better.
Actually in all honesty, my personal opinion is that as long as we keep our helmets orange (as we always should), I indeed prefer a blue number with an orange outline for our away jerseys. Minus my mortal enemy of slant ILLINOIS, I think these numbers on the white look really slick, regardless of pants color (though I think I have come around to preferring O/W/B on the road):
O/W/B
O/W/O
I'm biased as a fan, but I think our unique color scheme (within the Big Ten) does a lot of the work for us. As others have alluded to, our next uniforms are more about not messing this up than they are about reinventing the wheel.
However, I think I am prepared to die on the hill that white jerseys with plain orange font just look so boring and unimaginative. I am NOT endorsing a white helmet or all white uniform or anything else in particular about the two photos below, but these two examples are close enough that I think it illustrates my point of view in that it visually isolates the lettering itself:
Again, I would have an orange helmet, and I would have a more "block" font than either of those two, along with other things. However, I think when just looking at that number on an all-white uniform, the second looks much, much better.
Actually in all honesty, my personal opinion is that as long as we keep our helmets orange (as we always should), I indeed prefer a blue number with an orange outline for our away jerseys. Minus my mortal enemy of slant ILLINOIS, I think these numbers on the white look really slick, regardless of pants color (though I think I have come around to preferring O/W/B on the road):
O/W/B
O/W/O
I'm biased as a fan, but I think our unique color scheme (within the Big Ten) does a lot of the work for us. As others have alluded to, our next uniforms are more about not messing this up than they are about reinventing the wheel.
I'd be open to no white outline (or white number with orange outline) on the home jerseys IF we switch to a more classic block lettering font.
However, I think I am prepared to die on the hill that white jerseys with plain orange font just look so boring and unimaginative. I am NOT endorsing a white helmet or all white uniform or anything else in particular about the two photos below, but these two examples are close enough that I think it illustrates my point of view in that it visually isolates the lettering itself:
Again, I would have an orange helmet, and I would have a more "block" font than either of those two, along with other things. However, I think when just looking at that number on an all-white uniform, the second looks much, much better.
Actually in all honesty, my personal opinion is that as long as we keep our helmets orange (as we always should), I indeed prefer a blue number with an orange outline for our away jerseys. Minus my mortal enemy of slant ILLINOIS, I think these numbers on the white look really slick, regardless of pants color (though I think I have come around to preferring O/W/B on the road):
O/W/B
O/W/O
I'm biased as a fan, but I think our unique color scheme (within the Big Ten) does a lot of the work for us. As others have alluded to, our next uniforms are more about not messing this up than they are about reinventing the wheel.
Looks like the helmet stripe is about to switch and the helmets will move from matte to gloss
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