Better than I could have done! I’m about as Team Script as they come, but it’s GOTTA be this version. The other one just ain’t it. It’s actually bewildering we’d take a wildly successful and popular cursive font that we already have and make a way worse one when we need to chop off three letters…
Meh, I certainly prefer the Block I ... a helmet logo, IMO, should not be too tall or too wide, which writing is always going to be. However, I do not think it would look bad at all to get the basketball script font and shorten it into "Illini," as it is a short enough word that does not take up that much space. Again, I prefer the Block I, but I think these examples look pretty good and ours would look better:No script on the helmet, not now, not ever.
I agree with you. If we wear white helmets for a game every few years, that script one would be the way to go. By far the best version of our white helmets that I've seen.Meh, I certainly prefer the Block I ... a helmet logo, IMO, should not be too tall or too wide, which writing is always going to be. However, I do not think it would look bad at all to get the basketball script font and shorten it into "Illini," as it is a short enough word that does not take up that much space. Again, I prefer the Block I, but I think these examples look pretty good and ours would look better:
Again, while not endorsing the script ... I actually think these look better than everything above, especially the white one:
Come to think of it, I think the only reason I am not 110% Team Script when it comes to the helmets is that I just generally don't think we should wear white helmets and we should stick with orange ... because if I take that belief out of the equation, I find that white script one above to be DAMN slick, and it would look even better with a shortened "Illini" on it.
I'll echo what others have said with regard to the outline ... if you want to go no outline and just go full-on "simple classic" or whatever, our font needs to match that:
I'll echo what others have said with regard to the outline ... if you want to go no outline and just go full-on "simple classic" or whatever, our font needs to match that:
I think the reason our current set looks so jarring, at least to me, is we take this SUPER simple (dare I say boring) color scheme with no outlines or stripes ... and we combine it with these weird, kind of futuristic, "try-hard" trendy numbers on the front. It looks disjointed and just kind of plain combining those two types of styles.
I don't even care about the white pants (I NEVER complained about this during the Zook Era unlike some other posters, I liked them!), what I would give to have the throwbacks above with the following changes:
- Block I on the helmet
- Switch blue/white stripe pattern on the helmet
- Very faint white outline on the number
I actually think white pants look great for us when we have only blue and orange above that. That B/O/B stripe on the white pants looks REAL nice.
In 20 years few fans will be able to read cursive. Younger fans will have to ask their grandparents “grandpa, what does that say on the helmet?”Meh, I certainly prefer the Block I ... a helmet logo, IMO, should not be too tall or too wide, which writing is always going to be. However, I do not think it would look bad at all to get the basketball script font and shorten it into "Illini," as it is a short enough word that does not take up that much space. Again, I prefer the Block I, but I think these examples look pretty good and ours would look better:
Again, while not endorsing the script ... I actually think these look better than everything above, especially the white one:
Come to think of it, I think the only reason I am not 110% Team Script when it comes to the helmets is that I just generally don't think we should wear white helmets and we should stick with orange ... because if I take that belief out of the equation, I find that white script one above to be DAMN slick, and it would look even better with a shortened "Illini" on it.
Lol, fair but that might actually make it cooler!
Love this look.I'll echo what others have said with regard to the outline ... if you want to go no outline and just go full-on "simple classic" or whatever, our font needs to match that:
I think the reason our current set looks so jarring, at least to me, is we take this SUPER simple (dare I say boring) color scheme with no outlines or stripes ... and we combine it with these weird, kind of futuristic, "try-hard" trendy numbers on the front. It looks disjointed and just kind of plain combining those two types of styles.
I don't even care about the white pants (I NEVER complained about this during the Zook Era unlike some other posters, I liked them!), what I would give to have the throwbacks above with the following changes:
- Block I on the helmet
- Switch blue/white stripe pattern on the helmet
- Very faint white outline on the number
I actually think white pants look great for us when we have only blue and orange above that. That B/O/B stripe on the white pants looks REAL nice.
This does check a lot of boxes for things that were rumored. As long as ours don't say Illinois across the front I'm good.
They've needed to tone it down for awhile now. I like those. Still need to decide on a helmet.
Such a clean awesome set. I know our "brand" is frankly a bit more boring than that, but I hope we can have something just as impressive.
Man what a lucky coincidence that they have a player with the last name "Oklahoma St." on their team.
kinda like when the Redskins seemingly had a player named Washington 3 or 4 times in their history
Nice catch on that, I bet you are right. . . but I wonder where it would be, as I doubt the helmets are changed that dramatically.
Same. As I said before, I prefer the Block I helmet with the colors of the stripes flipped, but those script helmet mock-ups look great. I’d also be totally cool with script Illinois just becoming our secondary logo ala a logo like UCLA.
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