Here’s the new Pitt P, modeled on a baseball uniform:Īdmittedly, it looks a lot like the logo belonging to the pro baseball team from the inferior side of Pennsylvania. The Panthers are also introducing a standard “P” logo, and you might think they stole it from the Philadelphia Phillies, but you’d be wrong. This cannot not be worse than that, though I’ll admit to some childhood affection for that mangled-looking panther face from earlier this century. Pitt could’ve gone with a side-profile panther instead, but the university has already been there, tried that, and produced one of the weirdest-looking things in recent logo history: On the bright side, it’s hard to argue it’s worse than this Panther logo. Jerome Lane broke a backboard dressed like this:Ĭheck out Pitt's completely original new Panther logo! /7JdO1TXLeq- RedditCFB Ap6. The football team was a national power in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, dressed like this: Getty Images The whole uniform design is a throwback to what any reasonable observer would call the most beloved sports era in Pitt history. I’m prepared to just not make a big deal about this particular thing. Now, all uniforms bearing numbers feature a more rounded font inspired by the Cathedral of Learning’s arches. The football and basketball teams had been wearing throwbacks with block numbers, while the non-revenue teams went with a futuristic font that somewhat negated the retro theme established by the colors. One issue addressed by the new branding is Pitt’s numerical font, which was not uniform across all teams until Sunday. There’s a specific Pitt reason for the font, too. For instance, look at these soccer numbers:
The new number font has more edges and looks kind of science-fictional to me:īut I get the desire to project some newness, and I also get that Pitt seems to be going for some standardization across sports here. Those had blockier numbers, with a bit less sharpness to them: Photo by Justin K. Pitt had been wearing similar football throwbacks on and off for a few years.
The numbering is kind of weird, but at least I get it. (The yellow is commonly called “athletic gold.” I’ll be referring to it going forward as “yellow.) 3. The yellow nicely matches the seats at Heinz Field.Heinz, a Pittsburgh company known for its ketchup, is also active in mustard.If you don’t like that vibrant shade of blue up against that fun yellow, I can’t help you.
That photo’s via the school, like all the other ones in this post of the Panthers’ new clothes. The University of Pittsburgh, the biggest school in my hometown, has a new color scheme, some new logos, and new uniforms for all of its teams.
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