New wordmark...

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GAVol said:
Arguing about fonts.... For those that think a bunch of dudes arguing about uniforms isn't ridiculous enough.
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Amen. A message board should not be discussing such things in the off season. :crazy:
 
#178
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VolNRaleighNC said:
Hey, I've got a proposal... Since the wordmark was provided to UT by Nike at no cost I say UT should give away any apparel with said wordmark because it is el cheapo! No way I'm paying for that garbage design. Good idea conceptually with the shape of TN but absolutely horrible in print. If it's on any uniform then that's a shame and such a waste.
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Thats wonderdul for you. I like it and will be buying a bunch of clothes to make up for your lack of buying.
 
#179
#179
DP,

Is UT potentially going to run into what Michigan ran into with Nike copyrighting (I think) the color Maize when UM switched from Nike to Adidas...should UT change down the road?

I would think UT is protected from such tactics as "Tennessee Orange" is a pretty unique color to our Vols.

Just curious. Thanks.
 
#180
#180
People just don't like change. I would bet that by the time the program re-brands years into the future, everyone will like this design and hate whatever comes next. It's only inevitable as this design grows on people over the course of time.
 
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Yater said:
People just don't like change. I would bet that by the time the program re-brands years into the future, everyone will like this design and hate whatever comes next. It's only inevitable as this design grows on people over the course of time.
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Truth.
 
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Boca Vol said:
DP,

Is UT potentially going to run into what Michigan ran into with Nike copyrighting (I think) the color Maize when UM switched from Nike to Adidas...should UT change down the road?

I would think UT is protected from such tactics as "Tennessee Orange" is a pretty unique color to our Vols.

Just curious. Thanks.
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No, because UT had already declared what UT orange is before Nike took over.

When Nike standardized all of the various yellows at Michigan, they developed a proprietary shade to use across the board there.

Michigan didn't "have to" change their maize because of their switch to Adidas, but they did. The reasons are complicated to explain, I'm not certain I completely understand it. It had more to do with the process for applying the color to fabrics than the actual color itself.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
No money was spent on the wordmark, it was provided by Nike as part of them taking over the apparel contract.

They ran the numbers several years ago, putting armrests and back on the seats (and the corresponding 2 inch increase in seats size to accommodate the armrests) In Neyland would cut capacity to around 79,000. So since we would have cut capacity by 20%, are you willing to spend 20% more on every ticket?
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so...it was free?
 
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DeerPark12 said:
No, because UT had already declared what UT orange is before Nike took over.

When Nike standardized all of the various yellows at Michigan, they developed a proprietary shade to use across the board there.

Michigan didn't "have to" change their maize because of their switch to Adidas, but they did. The reasons are complicated to explain, I'm not certain I completely understand it. It had more to do with the process for applying the color to fabrics than the actual color itself.
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Thanks! :good!:
 
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#187
Judging by some of these posts, you would think some people are more concerned with how good our Logo looks on TV as opposed to how good our team looks on the field. That being said, it's kinda meh. I'm all about that tradition.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Wow....I was only off by 11K seats.

A few years ago I was bored one evening and counted every seat (had to make a few assumptions) in Neyland. I looked at every section on UT's ticket site and counted around 98,000 seats. I assumed the other 4.5K came from the skyboxes/pressbox.
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Wow, that was a long night, Boca. If you could count one seat every second (which seems vey slow starting out, but wait till you get to "one thousand, three hundred and forty seven..."), if you could count them that fast, avg one per second, it would take you 27 hours, and 16 minutes.

I'm guessing you sped it up with some counting rows and seats/row and multiplying. Hehe :)


p.s. I once counted to 5,000 out loud, on a dare. It was a long night convoy, we ran out of crap to talk about, had to stay awake, got dared, and so... Took almost two hours, if I remember right. :unsure:
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Wow, that was a long night, Boca. If you could count one seat every second (which seems vey slow starting out, but wait till you get to "one thousand, three hundred and forty seven..."), if you could count them that fast, avg one per second, it would take you 27 hours, and 16 minutes.

I'm guessing you sped it up with some counting rows and seats/row and multiplying. Hehe :)


p.s. I once counted to 5,000 out loud, on a dare. It was a long night convoy, we ran out of crap to talk about, had to stay awake, got dared, and so... Took almost two hours, if I remember right. :unsure:
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OK that's funny! There are several sections that are identical. The curved sections were the hardest to count. I wish I still had my sheets to scan onto here. :)
 
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Cosmo said:
I think that is great. I can't wait to see them go crazy over the new uniforms.

Maybe that will silence some of the naysayers (at least for a couple of days).
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Why should it silence anybody? I hope the players love the uniforms and wear them proudly. That, however, has no correlation to fans' opinions on the design. I'll think it's a terrible design, even as I buy apparel featuring it and wear it to support the Vols.
 
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My only problem with it is that one "N"

Why is it completely different? It cheapens the rest of it.
 
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Wylo said:
My only problem with it is that one "N"

Why is it completely different? It cheapens the rest of it.
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The middle "N" and "E" are different. The "N" is more noticeable as the "E" different from the others.

Nike does that with its fonts, though. Some of the letters and numbers are different from one another.
 
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Wylo said:
My only problem with it is that one "N"

Why is it completely different? It cheapens the rest of it.
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Look at it this way: both Ns are the same except that the first N is being overlapped by the slanted extension of the preceding E. Same thing happens to all the Es except the middle one, because there's no slanted upper bar on the letter before it.

The only place where the overall motif doesn't hold is where the lower bars meet between the middle E and S (there's no slant). My guess is that was just a functional decision to keep the E from looking too much like an F, or maybe to keep it all from having too much of an italic look.
 
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