I'm certain the Mad Men designing these ads were New Yorkers and big time Mets fans. 60's and 70's advertising was covered with this now-outdated font. No font is more frozen-in-time than Souvenir. It spruces up an otherwise boring Padres logo. San Diego is fun! We need a typeface that is fun! Broadway! Yes, it looks like the letters are falling down. The WBC Final was staged in the Giants home ballpark, AT&T Park, so why not shift one of the worst typefaces of all time, that used by the London 2012 Olympics, to the San Francisco Giants? The Olympics dropped baseball and the World Baseball Classic stepped in to slake our thirst for contrived international baseball tournaments. San Francisco Giants - London Olympic 2012 Let's try to make the snake a little more gentle, shall we? Hobo certainly does the trick. The Diamondbacks normal typeface looks so mean and angular. The Dodgers are meant to simulate a real contender. This font is meant to simulate real handwriting. I figure why spend money on a crap font I'm only going to make fun of? I hope Dinger isn't too disappointed. So what area screams Wild West and dinosaur bones? Colorado!įull disclosure: Neuland Inline is a proprietary font, so I substituted this generic one called, you guessed it, Jurassic Park. Neuland Inline is the typeface you'll find at Busch Gardens, in Jurassic Park, and, of course, on the packaging for Natural American Spirit tobacco products. Doesn't really seem to fit with the team does it? Here, we've made it much more gentle to better reflect a team starring Brandon Inge and Jason Grilli. The normal Pirates "P" logo has these little barbs in the corners that make it look all aggressive, intimidating, and dangerous. This font is about as good as the beer they make in Milwaukee. Like most people from Ohio this font is fatter than it is tall. Even the Best Fans In Baseball ™ would throw rocks if they had to look at this mess.
The birds are longing to take a crap on this wordmark. Basically the font tries to convince you how rich and historic the thing is when really the typeface is over-exposed and everyone is sick of it.
It is also used to lend seriousness to video game and movie packaging. We begin with the NL Central because no one ever starts in the middle and this is a hip, edgy blog.ĭeveloped in 1989, Trajan is the official font of a host of universities, most notably the University of Kansas. Maybe it would look better on the Comerica Park logo? No, it wouldn't.īut what about the National League teams' logos? What might they look like? In a previous post we explored what the Tigers look would be like if swapped the Olde English typeface with Comic Sans. Thus, today we have the privilege of welcoming our friends from the Senior Circuit, the Atlanta Braves, to Comerica Park. Part of the mechanics of moving the Astros to the American League West and enjoying balanced divisions is adopting year-round interleague play.