Washington Wizards logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG
- Meaning and history Though the Washington Wizards basketball club was officially born only in 1997, the team’s history dates back to 1962, when the Chicago Zephyrs club was established.
- It was a white basketball outlined in blue with a red sans-serif “Bullets” lettering and smaller size blue “Baltimore” above it.
- 1968 — 1969 The redesign of 1968 created a new emblem for the club.
- It was a bold stylized inscription in the lowercase, where the smooth red lettering had its double “L” drawn as two hands with a bright red basketball above them.
- 1971 — 1972 For one year, in 1971, the club used its emblem drawn in dark blue and red, with both parts of the wordmark in blue, and the red basketball above two stylized hands.
- It was a powerful and professional logo look.
- 1973 — 1974 The name of the club was changed to Capital Bullets in 1973, after their relocation to Washington.
- As for the emblem, it remained the same, only the “Baltimore” lettering was replaced by the “Capital”, executed in the same blue color.
- 1974 — 1987 The name of the club was changed to Washington Bullets in 1974.
- The badge remained untouched, as well as its bright blue and red color palette, just the “Capital” wordmark was replaced by the “Washington”.
- 1987 — 1997 In 1987 the Washington Bullets logo was redesigned.
- 1997 — 2007 The name of the club changed to Washington Wizards in 1997, and the completely new logo is being introduced in the same year.
- The new emblem features a stylized image of a wizard in a light blue color palette, with a gold moon on his left, having a pattern of a basketball, and a gold and black ball above his right hand.
- The emblem started looking fresher and more elegant in comparison to the previous version.
- 2015 — Today The redesign of 2015 brought a new look to the Wizards’ emblem, and now it is a circular badge with a stylized blue and white basketball enclosed in a thick red and blue frame with white lettering around its perimeter.
- The inscription is executed in a fancy sans-serif typeface with bold smooth lines.
- Font The lettering seen on the Washington Wizards new logo appears to have been inspired by Friz Quadrata Bold, which is a glyphic serif typeface created by Ernst Friz in collaboration with Victor Caruso.
- It has been heavily modified for the newer logo, though.
- The Washington Wizards logo font is bolder and narrower, while the italicized effect is gone.
- Color All the colors of the official palette – red (PMS 186), navy blue (PMS 289), and silver (PMS 877) – can be seen on the logo Washington Wizards use as the global one.
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