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Originally Posted by browna
Nice choice for name and number.
Not sure why the Flames can't get little things right or consistent. They do it fine on the primary set and even the Western alternates had details consistent. This looks like a hodge podge of trim looks like it was thrown together from peices left over from the equipment room.
Name bar - red outline.
Numbers on back - red and yellow outline.
Crest on front - yellow (and black negative space) outline.
Shoulder numbers - black outline.
Ok, the 1995 originals had a black trim on name, yellow and black number trim, yellow crest trim and black shoulder number trim. A mess as well. Again though, this doesn't have to be some exact duplicate of that, Flames can change these details to look proper.
Of course, for this jersey they are simply and lazily using the same name and numbers on the back as the Blasty jersey, but the Blasty jersey suffers from the same inconsistency.
Blasty has same name bar and numbers as the RR, but yellow and red outlined numbers on the shoulders. No outline on Blasty crest. Black outline on white shoulder C.
To fix the RR, crest and shoulder numbers fine. Make the name bar and numbers with the same yellow (and black negative space) outline as the front crest. Cleaner, more consistent looking.
Or, at very least for consistently, outline the numbers just in red, not yellow and red, to match the name bar.
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With respect to the outlines ... it is typical on many NHL uniforms for small characters to be outlined in one colour and large characters to be outlined in two. The Boston Bruins recently streamlined the outlines on their smaller characters because the previous double-outline format made the names more difficult to read.
As for the different outlines between the small characters on the back and the arms ... that is because those characters are on different-coloured backgrounds. Red outline against black, black outline against red. Makes sense.
These letters and numbers are actually in a completely different font than the one on the back of the Blasty jersey. This is a much less rounded sans serif font. They're both italic fonts, but they're absolutely different.