My feature my rules
In 70 years, they’ve had 10 GMs, made 34 playoff appearances, been to 9 Landis Games and won 4 titles. Not too shabby. But what is a little shabby and need up an update is their look.
Let’s take a look at the old one. It’s a mid-evil type shield that has the teams name across the top of with 2 crisscrossing sword/battle axes. The primary colors are orange and what looks to be some sort of brownish tint and silver swords and shields. Nothing about this logo says baseball to me, or even matches with their team uniform colors in the game.
The Makeover had to meet these 3 criteria.
- First, incorporate something into the new logo that has a baseball theme.
- Second, use the teams existing color / uniform palette w/in the new look when at all possible.
- Third, try to maintain a connection to the team’s history.
My design style is pretty simple. If the logo looks good in black and white, you have a good logo. Second, I’m a big believer in less is more when it comes to colors for unis and logos. Some of my favorite sports logos have this look. (I’ll leave my two fav sports teams off) - <wink>. If you look at the Raiders, Packers, and Colts in the NFL, each has two colors or 3 colors in their primary designs. The Yankees, Dodgers, and yes, even the Red Menace themselves, the St. Louis Cardinals. All have what I consider a classic logos / color scheme. I could go on, but just note, I am a card-carrying member of Uni-Watch
and could talk about this for hours.Any-who, with-out further ado… your 2042 Makeover Monday California Crusaders
As you can see in the new Makeover Monday of Cali’s logo, I used their three primary colors of blue(s), white, and yellow they had in-game and on their uniforms. A very UCLA-ish, color scheme, I don’t know if this was an influence or not.
I incorporated the teams yellow hat cross (albeit an updated version on the crusader), and state of California from their current uniform. I then decide to go from a round shield to a non-round one. (I don’t really know what you’d call that shape.)
and I added a holy looking star above his head. Why? Dunno I thought it looked cool. Again my feature my rules To add more of “baseball” feel to the design, the updated it with a crusader who is on-top of a home plate, and the entire design is on a large baseball (again to incorporate) the baseball theme. I also added a little "Wave" action, as you know those Californians love the ocean.
Hats: -- California’s Uni’s and Caps are a nice look, I didn’t do much here. I like the blue hat with the yellow crusader cross, it really pops. Simple and sharp (see my two-color rule). The only thing I changed was the cross style, so it’s consistent throughout the design. They had only one hat for home/away, I kept that the same.
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New:
Home Uni: - Kept the same color scheme, added the updated logo on sleeve, removed the Cali C&C on the chest and replaced it with the Crusader. Updated the team’s stripes on the color and sleeves to match, and updated the cross on the undershirt.
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Road Uni: -- The one big thing I did change with California’s uniforms is their road-unis. Today (in-game) they are the same as their home ones.
I am a HUGE fan of MLB teams going to back to power-blue-unis this season, well when we had one. Call me nostalgic, but I couldn’t get enough of these when I was a kid. Again, my feature my rules
. So, I have updated Cali’s road-unis to be powered blue (matching the blue on their current scheme). I have removed the state with the interlocking C’s and replaced it with the text CALI, updated the team’s stripes on the color and sleeves to match, and updated the cross on the undershirt.
Enjoy!
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