Category: Style Guides

The Odd Overlap of Uniforms and Road Runner Cartoons

By Paul Lukas, on June 20th, 2019%

One of the podcasts I regularly listen to, which is nominally about politics, has a segment at the end where the three podcast participants all recommend something (usually non-political) that they’ve encountered over the past week. For last week’s segment, one of the participants, the TV journalist John Dickerson, recommended the rules that Warner . . . → Read More: The Odd Overlap of Uniforms and Road Runner Cartoons

Uni Watch Show and Tell: An Early-’80s MLB Style Guide

By Paul Lukas, on June 21st, 2016%

@UniWatch nice find at work. 1980 Uniform Specification book for every team pic.twitter.com/EtPmZcvVYe

— Andrew Weatherly (@arwfsu) June 2, 2016

I have a bunch of MLB style guides from the late 1990s and early 2000s, but none from earlier than that. So when reader Andrew Weatherly recently sent me a tweet . . . → Read More: Uni Watch Show and Tell: An Early-’80s MLB Style Guide

Uni Watch Exclusive: The Super Bowl 50 Style Guide

By Paul Lukas, on June 16th, 2015%

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Thanks to a source who prefers to remain anonymous, I recently got my hands on the Super Bowl 50 Style Guide, which stipulates how the Super Bowl logos and such are to be used. There’s nothing earth-shattering here — no leaks of particularly sensitive information, no big . . . → Read More: Uni Watch Exclusive: The Super Bowl 50 Style Guide

A Newly Discovered Quirk in Twins Design History

By Paul Lukas, on January 21st, 2015%

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[Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest entry from uniform designer/historian Todd Radom, who’s discovered a heretofore undocumented chapter in MLB logo history. ”” PL]

By Todd Radom

I recently acquired a rare copy of the 1987 Major League Baseball Style Guide. It was a fun trip . . . → Read More: A Newly Discovered Quirk in Twins Design History