Graphics Collection from CD's Ultra-Fine House of Style

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

For my WLAB-related dynasty, Tampa Bay's baseball team is going to be the Rogues for quite some time into the future. Their football and soccer teams are going to be the Rowdies, once created. Their basketball team is going to be the Ruffians, and their hockey team is going to be the Rascals. What I've periodically been looking for here is the Rowdies' font or a similar enough one to it, because I think it would potentially work best at least for the Rogues here, if not for the Ruffians and/or Rascals as well. That would help to tie all the teams together with each other, I think, if they had the same basic font or similar fonts to each other, EC.

If I had that font, or at least one similar enough one to it, I think that would really make things pop for the Rogues here, no matter what their main team colors would be for them in the relevant baseball league here for my WLAB dynasty. The yellow and green go well with each other, but they still need at least one darker uniform for the away games, of course, as well.

Thank you for your advice and all, and we'll see what I or others can do further for the Rogues and/or related teams to them, I'm sure, in due time, if and whenever possible and all, Lord willing. Will talk more later, I'm sure, in any case, if and when possible and all, EC. In the meantime, time for me to go back to work on LUtD-related matters, I think, at least for a bit here, perhaps. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Anyone have any good fortune in finding out what the main, if not only, font is, at least, that the Tampa Bay Rowdies use/used or a similar enough free one for possible commercial use later on? I'd really like to be able to use it or ones similar enough to it in the future, if and whenever possible, for any graphics-related work I may eventually do in it, of course. Thanks in advance to anyone who may be willing and able to help me out here at least a little in this regard. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Meanwhile, as I hope for an eventual completion of work suitable enough for the Tampa Bay Rogues to use in the future for the relevant dynasty, two Chicago teams still need work done for them as follows, it seems:

Chicago Mobsters (Black, white, brown, and navy, preferably with main influence coming from the Chicago Hitmen football team)

Chicago Butchers (Black, white, light blue, navy, and bright red, preferably with main influence coming from Chicago Bulls, secondary influence coming from Chicago Stockyarders, and tertiary influence coming from Rockford Ice Hogs)

For those who choose to work on these teams, please feel free to design them as you wish, with those preferred design influences if and whenever possible and desired here. I must note that the current era of play is the 19th Century in the relevant dynasty. You don't have to stick with just 19th Century looks for them here, if you don't want to, in any case, though, of course. You folks can certainly design them here as you wish, if you then wish to do so here, and strictly in pre-23 style here, for the relevant dynasty is an OOTP 22 one at present, just so you know.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out here, for sure, in relation to these two Chicago teams. Hopefully I'll be able to see them done here soon somehow. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I'd still like a potential set of items for a team called the Minnesota Mountain Goats inspired by my time with the Minnesota Conservation Corps back in 1991, if possible. I posted a request nearly six years ago in the Retro thread that has not yet been filled, but if someone would like to try and do some items related to such a team, I'd really appreciate it, of course. The relevant post requesting some potential work for that team is here:

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...postcount=8968

You can find more information about MCC and related agencies and all in the link provided for the post. For this particular team, I'd prefer post-1900 looks, if possible here, please, with main colors matching either the shown cap or shown patch, at least, where and when possible.

The team's relevant home uniform items should be lighter than the away uniform items, of course. I'd like at least one home set and one away set, with potential alternate items as well, if possible here.

If you use a Mountain Goat mascot instead of the provided images for inspiration here, however, perhaps they should be holding a bat and/or certain tools that various workers in state parks might use while doing park maintenance in them, for instance. Or maybe they could even be shown as a pitcher on a pitcher's mound somewhere, perhaps, somehow?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out here with this long-wanted team here, for sure. It may be a challenging one, I admit, to handle here, but if anyone can do it and is willing to try, I'd greatly appreciate it here as well, in any case. I've also begun trying to do a potential team-related set inspired by my time at Camp Buckskin in 1990, but have not yet had any real success in that regard, though.

I went to Camp Buckskin for part of the summer of 1990, and I will likely need some help from others here, in terms of potential team-related items for them. The camp is apparently no longer in existence as such, but the area which it inhabited still is, of course. In essence, I suppose it could be said that Camp Buckskin is the place where my fictional nations first were conceived of in my mind, or at least first inspired by here, in truth. If it weren't for Camp Buckskin and the fun times I had there, my CD persona and other related settings and all the other things and people that have been created since that time wouldn't likely exist now, or have ever existed in the past, I believe. And yes, I did have quite a lot of fun, if I'm not mistaken, back then.

Talk more later, if and whenever possible, I'm sure, folks. Let's see if work for the Mobsters and Butchers and the Minnesota Mountain Goats get done soon first, though, in any case. Thanks for your time and all, then. Please stay safe and all as best as you each can here in this world of ours, I hope. CD out.

[smythejd]

Hello Clovidequano Dovatha

Since I started you down the Tampa Bay Rowdies road and the font is near impossible to find. Thought I would complete (in my mind) the uniform set and give you the rowdies image I was able to extract.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Thank you, smythejd. Perhaps the Tampa Bay football and soccer teams could use them whenever they'd do baseball-style events once they're each created in the WLAB universe, I think. I wish I knew what the Rowdies font was or fonts were, though, or which free font or fonts might be most like it or them here, in any case. Believe me, I've been trying to find such a font or such fonts for a while, whether on my computer or not, for sure.

Thank you for your time and effort and all here, and it is very much appreciated here. Hope you have a good day, then. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

Very nice job, smythejd.

I just might use the Rowdies nickname in my ultimate dynasty league.
I got the road jersey, thanks to you.

Maybe I can entice one of the gifted gurus to do me a white home team version when I decide on the town name, which will be fictional.

I am thinking of recreating the Laseron Baseball Association from years ago.
IMO that was the first great dynasty leagues on the Dynasty Board. Sadly it did not last long. I intend to use some of those fictional towns in my final and ultimate dynasty league. It will be limited to just 16 teams in the league.

[Trek2300]

Originally Posted by Eugene Church

Very nice job, smythejd.

I just might use the Rowdies nickname in my ultimate dynasty league.
I got the road jersey, thanks to you.

Maybe I can entice one of the gifted gurus to do me a white home team version when I decide on the town name, which will be fictional.

I am thinking of recreating the Laseron Baseball Association from years ago.
IMO that was the first great dynasty leagues on the Dynasty Board. Sadly it did not last long. I intend to use some of those fictional towns in my final and ultimate dynasty league. It will be limited to just 16 teams in the league.

Hello EC! I made these for a league based off of the NASL of the 1970s and 80s. See if they work for you and of course, CD you as well. One thing I'm actually quite proud of is altering the original logo work in a baseball motif.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I still am on OOTP 22 and earlier versions. So I can't really use post-22 items here just yet when it comes to certain uniforms and/or caps, at least, if not also logos as well, trek2300. I'm also probably going to have to wait to download and/or install and/or use certain later versions of OOTP and perhaps at least one version of FHM until after I relocate somewhere else, most likely sometime in the very near future, I think, due to certain life circumstances for me and mine that are around now or might be soon. Or certain space concerns on one or more of my computers, either in the present or in the future, for that matter.

I still have no idea what free font or fonts might be most like the one or the ones that the various versions of the real-world Tampa Bay Rowdies have ever used in the past or now use, unfortunately. I'd like to somehow have at least one font that's quite similar, if not identical, to that font or those fonts available to me here for the Tampa Bay Rogues, though. Do you possibly have any good potential ideas about just what commercial-friendly free fonts might be closest to what I'm looking for here, in this current situation?

IF I knew which font or fonts to use here for the Rogues, and had suitable enough related logos in the appropriate colors for them, I could then perhaps finish them off or rework what I've already done for them here, it seems to me. So any help and advice you could potentially provide here related to the relevant font or fonts so that certain things could say Rogues on them instead of Rowdies would certainly be quite appreciated here, for your information. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

The relevant associated team names for a multisport franchise based in Tampa Bay are the Rogues for the baseball team, the Rowdies for the football and soccer teams, the Ruffians for the basketball team, and the Rascals for the hockey team, sharing a common naming theme for them, at least as things go for my Where Legends Are Born sports-related universe here. Plus, in that particular sporting universe, it seems to me that the Tampa Bay Rogues have already won at least one overall league title with that exact team nickname, if not at least two titles with it. That's if memory serves me correctly enough here, that is, so they're sticking with it for at least the next several years, if not forever.

It's too soon for the other associated teams to be created in it, seeing as it's still the 19th Century in it, though. If I can find a good football-related game to use to simulate seasons, and the time to do so, I'd start that part of the sporting Universe circa 1920. The basketball part of it would start around the mid-1940's, and the hockey part circa 1915. And the soccer part would probably start circa 1960. As for other parts of it, they probably wouldn't largely come in, if I'm ever able to get far enough into it, until circa 1975, I think, for that matter, as well.

I've already posted about related plans for the relevant sporting universe in my WLAB-related dynasty reports thread, I believe, but I've not been able to spend a great deal of time doing much more for it lately, for various reasons, both online and offline, in truth. I hope I can get back to it very soon, of course, but right now, there are other things that are certain more important things that need to be attended to first by me or in relation to me. Things like certain writing projects of mine, for instance, that haven't yet been completed sufficiently well here.

I've been trying to spend a good deal of time working on things related to Lighting Up the Darkness, for instance, so that's why I've not been posting as much as I often do around here, folks. I'm still stuck on it, and I also haven't really been able to do all that much for graphics-related creation-type work, compared to somewhat more productive periods for me in terms of such things around here, lately. Sure, I've done some, of course, of late, but not like I've periodically been known to do around here when sufficiently inspired and all. I do hope to get back to eventually doing more such work as soon as I possibly can do it around here, Lord and time permitting and all, though, for sure, folks. CD out.

[Eugene Church]

Originally Posted by Trek2300

Hello EC! I made these for a league based off of the NASL of the 1970s and 80s. See if they work for you and of course, CD you as well. One thing I'm actually quite proud of is altering the original logo work in a baseball motif.

Trek2300, Thank you so much for taking the time to do such a great job on the Rowdies white home jersey.
You did an excellent job.

There just might come a day soon when I will have the Rowdies in my final and ultimate dynasty league.

I will download these two Rowdies jerseys and put it in my jersey folder.

[smythejd]

As I sit here watching Euro2024 and reading these forums, I thought to search this forum and try to find a Rogues uniform which I used in my fictional league some time ago. I have just completed that search and got more hits than i would have thought. (might have to scroll through the pages some but the uniforms are there)

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...t=Rogue&page=9

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...es#post3608432

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...es#post3785844

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...es#post4744788

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...es#post4785494

https://forums.ootpdevelopments.com/...es#post5031570

In addition to these, txranger did at least two versions which got corrupted by photo bucket but you might be able to find them on his downloads.

Hopefully you can find a suitable uniform from these creations.

[Trek2300]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

I still am on OOTP 22 and earlier versions. So I can't really use post-22 items here just yet when it comes to certain uniforms and/or caps, at least, if not also logos as well, trek2300. I'm also probably going to have to wait to download and/or install and/or use certain later versions of OOTP and perhaps at least one version of FHM until after I relocate somewhere else, most likely sometime in the very near future, I think, due to certain life circumstances for me and mine that are around now or might be soon. Or certain space concerns on one or more of my computers, either in the present or in the future, for that matter.

I still have no idea what free font or fonts might be most like the one or the ones that the various versions of the real-world Tampa Bay Rowdies have ever used in the past or now use, unfortunately. I'd like to somehow have at least one font that's quite similar, if not identical, to that font or those fonts available to me here for the Tampa Bay Rogues, though. Do you possibly have any good potential ideas about just what commercial-friendly free fonts might be closest to what I'm looking for here, in this current situation?

IF I knew which font or fonts to use here for the Rogues, and had suitable enough related logos in the appropriate colors for them, I could then perhaps finish them off or rework what I've already done for them here, it seems to me. So any help and advice you could potentially provide here related to the relevant font or fonts so that certain things could say Rogues on them instead of Rowdies would certainly be quite appreciated here, for your information. CD out.

Hey CD. Doing some research on the actual font used for the Rowdies wordmark and it is a proprietary font that isn't available called, Rowdies Regular. It's not available to the public.

Now some good news and bad news in the quest to finding a matching font.

Good news is there a font that is so similar that it's indistinguishable called Russell Circus.

Bad news is that I've only seen it available in one place, eriqjaffe's amazing OOTP Uniform Maker. It's available as a font for any wordmarks you make while using the program, but I have yet to find it available on any font download website.

I haven't given up yet and will dig deeper and see if I can find something that work and work well for you.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Thank you both, Trek2300 and smythejd. I'm familiar with a good number of fonts, but I don't seem to have any script-style fonts that are close enough to the Rowdies font for my tastes here, unfortunately. I've probably seen those links that smythejd linked earlier at least once before, if not more than that, but not entirely sure about that. And txranger's probably done Rogues-related teams as well, at least once before, if not more than that, as well, somehow.

As for the two Chicago teams mentioned above in post 4103 here, I really hope quite a bit here that someone can eventually do some good looks for their related items somehow here, in truth. The Mobsters are essentially the WLAB's equivalent to the White Sox, and the Butchers essentially the equivalent to the Whales in it, more or less, from a corresponding standpoint here to that of the real-world MLB and the Federal League and the short-lived Continental League, but with expansion-era and/or fictional teams occupying the FL and the CL here along with the 16 Classic Teams' traditional locations, after all.

While some team names in the WLAB-related sports universe may not exactly match certain real-world team names and/or locations in various sports, some do, for sure, in any case. Often with sufficiently compatible team names between various members of each multisport franchise's organizational structure, for that matter. And even identical names in many cases, as well, like for the entire Athletics multisport franchise, to name one such franchise here.

Thanks again to you both here for your help and all, then, trek2300 and smythejd. Looks like East Point's won their first Pro Cup in EC's IPA, so I wonder how many teams have yet to win a Pro Cup now in it. Care to let us know, either here or in your thread soon, EC? I think it's about 28 teams left that haven't won Pro Cups yet, actually, in your IPA.

Here's a thought or two, at least, that you perhaps might want to consider here, for future reference. As any teams that haven't yet won Pro Cups take them, you perhaps could drop them from your IPA and/or any IPA team that has already won multiple Pro Cups in the past. And then see what happens, of course. Or add them as possible candidates for your next dynasty league or leagues, for that matter. As the IPA gets smaller, and/or certain teams get put in a champions' league or something here, you might find it somewhat easier here to handle certain things for it and/or them, I think. This is just a suggestion or these are just a few suggestions that you may perhaps want to think about here in the very near future, that's all, EC. CD out.

[Trek2300]

Hey CD, I think I have found the font that will work for you. It's very close to the Rowdies wordmark font. It's called circus-webfont. I've attached it as a zip file for you.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Is it commercial-free, or not, by any chance, Trek2300? Just wondering, that's all. Thank you for your help and advice here, in any case. CD out.

[20_range]

CD, I made this logo for someone else's request. It has a mountain goat on it. It would be easy for me to make it say Minnesota Mountain Goats (in this font, Roadstore, or another font) and recolor it. I can even put a shovel or something where the diamonds are.


If you would like that, can you please give me the specific color codes that you want for it. I will not be making uniforms because I only have the new-style uniform maker.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

20_range,

I'm not sure what the proper color codes would be here, but if you can get close to the ones seen in the MCC patch or on the cap shown in the relevant post, that would be great, in terms of colors. Fonts-wise, I'm not quite sure yet about either, in terms of which one or ones might work the best here for them, which I may have already available for free fonts.

I'd really like at least one logo at least somewhat similar to the one or the ones that are seen in the relevant post, with sufficiently appropriate font or fonts used here, if possible. Once I know the relevant color codes and/or potential fonts to consider using later on, sufficiently well, then I can perhaps do the related caps and/or uniforms myself sometime later on using them or similar ones to such. Primary logo(s) should be 300x300, in any case, where possible, and secondary and/or alternate logos 150x150, I think.

When we were working in various Minnesota State Parks and had our hardhats on at times, I believe that we wore yellow helmets and blue imagery on the front of the helmet with the MCC logo of the time (Summer 1991, at least when I was there, but probably for other years as well around the time I was a Corpsmember there). Our baseball caps were blue with yellow imagery and text, as well, like seen in the hat picture included in the relevant post. However, we didn't actually wear the blue and green patch on our gear or other items, if memory serves me correctly enough here. Or at least I never did, anyway, as far as I can recall here.

Thanks for the offer, and if you do decide to tackle the Chicago Mobsters and/or Chicago Butchers and/or Tampa Bay Rogues, I do hope that you can come up with some really good logos, at least, for any or all of them, that I can use to create the related other needed items for them, if someone else doesn't do them first. And that's supposing that they've not already been done here by anyone around here, including me, of course, sufficiently well, as well, by the time you might complete work for them here yourself, that is.

The Chicago Mobsters franchise is the rough equivalent of the White Sox franchise from our reality for the WLAB-related dynasty, in at least one sense. While the Chicago Butchers franchise is sort of the rough equivalent of the Whales franchise in the Federal League from our reality, more or less, in like manner.

In the WLAB-related sports universe, the Mobsters are ultimately part of a multisport franchise with their baseball team being called the Mobsters, the gridiron football team being the Hitmen, the basketball team being the Gangsters, the hockey team being the Enforcers, and the soccer team being the Bruisers. While the Butchers themselves are ultimately part of a multisport franchise, in turn, with the Butchers being the baseball team, the Stockyarders as both the gridiron football team, the Bulls the basketball team, the Ice Hogs being the hockey team, and the Stockyarders as the soccer team, for the franchise.

Please feel quite free to use the suggested colors for each of the relevant franchises here or choose your own, if you like and can, 20_range, if you decide to try to help me out here, then, with any or all of them, at least as far as logos go. After that, then I might be able to do good enough caps and/or uniforms for them as well, if nobody else does so first, I think, eventually, somehow. CD out.

[20_range]

I find this very difficult to follow, but here is the version of the logo that I made as the Minnesota Mountain Goats. The color codes are from the patch, and they are 27650b, 4e7cbb, a2997a.


I hope that this is useful to you. I also already made logos for the Chicago Butchers and Chicago Mobsters earlier in this thread, but you did not like them, or use them.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Then I might have accidentally forgotten about that, somehow. I'll take another look and get back to you once I do so, and all. Thanks in any case for your attempts in relation to any of my teams here for any of my various dynasties to date, for sure. As for as someone being able to replicate the logos that we actually used on our caps and/or hardhats or elsewhere, while working for MCC, hopefully someone might be able to render some assistance in that regard here somehow, in due time. CD out.