San Francisco Giants logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG
- The fact that the Giants have played for two home cities explains the multiple number of their logos and their great diversity.
- Meaning and history The history of the San Francisco Giants baseball club dated back to 1904, when it was established under the name New York Giants, and kept that name until its relocation to California in 1958.
- 1904 — 1907 The original New York Giant logo, introduced in 1904, featured a pretty simple yet bold blue “NY” monogram with its square serif letters placed far from each other.
- It was a black intertwined lettering with both “N” and “Y” drawn in fancy smooth letters with come ends forked and others — rounded.
- 1923 — 1927, 1930 — 1931, 1947 — 1954 The emblem, designed in 1908 was redrawn in orange color in 1923.
- 1954 — 1957 The edges of the letters were redrawn and the color palette switched to red and white in 1954.
- The lines of the symbols became thicker and cleaner, and the bright red monogram evokes a sense of balance and confidence.
- This was the last badge, designed for New York Giants.
- 1958 — 1976 In 1958 the baseball club relocated to California and changed its name to San Francisco Giants.
- The redesign of the visual identity was held in the same year.
- There were two emblems, created for the team this year and both of them became a basis for the following redesigns and the current badges of the Giants.
- The primary logo featured a gradient white and gray baseball with orange stitched and a diagonally placed black “Giants” inscription executed in bold lines of a cursive typeface.
- As for the secondary version, it was a square and futuristic “SF” monogram in a serif font, executed in intense orange color and placed in a black background.
- 1977 — 1982 The color palette of the primary logo was changed in 1977 and now the baseball featured a combination of orange and black, while the diagonal inscription remained untouched.
- Both elements got slightly enlarged to look more confident and distinct in any background.
- 1983 — 1993 In 1983 the club changed the style of the wordmark and started writing it in a bold serif typeface with all letters capitalized and “G” and “S” enlarged.
- 1994 — 1999 The typeface of both emblems was changed in 1994.
- Now the capitalized letters had their edges sharp and fancy, and the whole badge started looking chic and elegant clean evoking a sense of professionalism, progressiveness yet showing the club’s value of its history.
- Another change was made to the baseball, and now its stitches feature the same orange shade as the letters’ outline.
- On all the other logos of the New York period the letters “N” and “Y” are interlocked, they are depicted in an old style and their colors change in the following succession ‒ blue (1908), brown (1909), red (1910), black (1911-1912), black plus a purple trim (1913-1914), black (1915), blue (1916), brown (1917), blue (1918-1922), red plus a black trim (1923), red (1924-1927), blue plus red trim (1928-1929), red plus a black trim (1930-1932), brown plus an orange trim (1933-1935), blue plus a red trim (1936-1939), blue plus a red trim (1945-1946).
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