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Edgy MD Jun 02 2022 02:12 PM

Colors, size, and drop-shadows aside, is the font used on the Mets' road chestplate more or less the same thing Boston uses at home and on the road? [fimg=400]https://fanatics.frgimages.com/FFImage/thumb.aspx?i=/productimages/_4375000/altimages/ff_4375193-acb0eb3b5d561ce7926falt1_full.jpg&w=900[/fimg] [fimg=400]https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-1nrqf/images/stencil/500x659/products/195590/481680/AlexCoraBostonRedSoxRoadJerseybyNike__65480.1630608923.jpg?c=2[/fimg] [FIMG=400]https://images.footballfanatics.com/boston-red-sox/boston-red-sox-nike-official-replica-home-jersey-mens-with-hernandez-5-printing_ss4_p-12066775+u-11dkvxo5j6rdqhxk3lsc+v-a32c83b82f5548ea8970a56380eb8992.jpg?_hv=1&w=900[/FIMG] Not only to they both have the signature vertically centered serif, but if you compare the Y in NEW YORK to the X in RED SOX, they both put serif's just above and below the center of the letter when the center itself isn't available. Looking at it now, it seems a better match with the Boston road top, where the letters are similarly ovoid. The Boston home top seems to be more elongated, with the inside walls of the D and the O almost parallel to each other.

batmagadanleadoff Jun 02 2022 02:37 PM Re: Met Sox

What do you mean by "more or less"? They're not the same fonts if they're not exactly alike, which they aren't.

Edgy MD Jun 02 2022 03:06 PM Re: Met Sox

I don't think we should divide into Arisotilian and Platonic camps of ontology and tear at theories of likeness and universality for this. If you don't feel there is a meaningful likeness, I'm good with that.

Marshmallowmilkshake Jun 02 2022 04:00 PM Re: Met Sox

They are certainly similar! The Red Sox have a custom font that is actually called "Bosox" [url]https://www.fontspace.com/bosox-font-f4710 I can't find confirmation that the Mets have customized their font, but it is very close to "MLB Tuscan" [url]https://www.dafont.com/mlb-tuscan.font

batmagadanleadoff Jun 02 2022 04:31 PM Re: Met Sox

Edgy MD wrote: If you don't feel there is a meaningful likeness, I'm good with that. =Marshmallowmilkshake post_id=94477 time=1654207239 user_id=119] They are certainly similar!

Nobody, especially me, ever said that they weren't similar. They're just not identical. So they're not the same font.

whippoorwill Jun 02 2022 05:07 PM Re: Met Sox

BTW, i watched a little of the game on ESPN the other day and I have to ask...is the orange in the Mets jerseys more red now?

kcmets Jun 02 2022 05:32 PM Re: Met Sox

I think the red-ness is more tv/digital color rendition thing on our end. I've noticed the orange on the Knicks uniforms is sometimes kinda red.

whippoorwill Jun 04 2022 07:18 PM Re: Met Sox

That's what I was hoping