Club Badge (merged)

We had to replace the eagle and the stars because I thought it just didn't look right, we had to go back to the round badge because as I grew up and saw City play so much in the 70's it was that type of badge that was always recognisable, I think the new one looks so much better............
 
The released image suggests that the "Manchester" and "City" are in black, which is subtly different from the leaked badge, and makes a difference.

I've gone from meh to quite like it now. It was never going to affect my life greatly anyway, but its better than the current badge, which none of us will ever forget, as it took us from rock bottom, to the very top in its time.
 
I think they missed a trick here because the 'CITY' font is flat and out of sync with the lettering and position on the previous badges; an improvement would have been to extend it into 'CITY F.C.' and curved the lettering asymmetrically either side of the centre line (where the dot used to be) for better balance and congruence...

.. that would have been perfect, and along with Otamedi's MMA beard would have positioned us with a distinct advantage
 
MCFCinUSA said:
I think they missed a trick here because the 'CITY' font is flat and out of sync with the lettering and position on the previous badges; an improvement would have been to extend it into 'CITY F.C.' and curved the lettering asymmetrically either side of the centre line (where the dot used to be) for better balance and congruence...

.. that would have been perfect, and along with Otamedi's MMA beard would have positioned us with a distinct advantage
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That clearly wasn't a mistake, they seem to have done the entire badge with the aim of emphasising the CITY. As much as possible. The big shield is an arrow pointing to it, and the lettering being straight night look a bit off, but it certainly catches everyone's eye.
 
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When you compare them all like that right next to each other the new badge looks amazing
 
I think it looks ok, its back to how it should have always been - round, with a ship and three stripes, not rocket science is it?
The eagle with three stars was always an embarrassing Lazio rip off - V bad design, 'when did you see an eagle in Manchester? (Noel Gallagher)
The Lancashire rose isn't relevant (at all) anymore as (sorry Gary James but your talking shite!)
Greater Manchester became its own county in 1974 -so why the rose? the worker bee image of Manchester would have been more apt,
but then again to be fair - the 'ship' on the city badge, of ship canal fame is technically on the Trafford Salford border?
So, maybe we need the 'satellite towns around -trafford Salford and Lancashire, far more more than we let on?
in fact they make Manchester GREATER'
 
domalino said:
That clearly wasn't a mistake, they seem to have done the entire badge with the aim of emphasising the CITY. As much as possible. The big shield is an arrow pointing to it, and the lettering being straight night look a bit off, but it certainly catches everyone's eye.
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au contraire (in best Del Boy fashion) as an aesthete if you mocked up a curvy 'City F. C.' and centred it appropriately and compared it to the square thing that's just been released then you'd see it was a clear visual improvement my friend
 
MCFCinUSA said:
au contraire (in best Del Boy fashion) as an aesthete if you mocked up a curvy 'City F. C.' and centred it appropriately and compared it to the square thing that's just been released then you'd see it was a clear visual improvement my friend
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Gary James said on Twitter that they did mock ups with Football Club and with FC and they both looked too cluttered and he liked the one with just City better. I do too. Otherwise you have top:Manchester. Bottom:City F.C. which looks stupid.
 
cleavers said:
The released image suggests that the "Manchester" and "City" are in black, which is subtly different from the leaked badge, and makes a difference.

I've gone from meh to quite like it now. It was never going to affect my life greatly anyway, but its better than the current badge, which none of us will ever forget, as it took us from rock bottom, to the very top in its time.
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Agree with all this. Will the lettering actually be black or will it be navy?
 
Ah well that's that then, bit of a let down really, still looks wonky to me.

So being that this is what we're going to have to get used to and the remembering the fact that it's just a badge... I can probably get used to the overlap of the shield looking a bit off and the Rose which reminds me of the English rugby team(and the Rags) but I really do wish they would curve the text on CITY, it does my head in every time I see it and there's no point in putting the three rivers/lines in there at all with such little contrast(should have been bold white).
 
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The unveiling today was great with the 3 surfer banners. Everything is there, some slight things people might find issue with like the shield shape or overlapping - but I assume the club tried various designs and settled on the best one. Like with the NYCFC one, I'm sure the best one would stand out and be unanimously picked by us if we were involved. We all know we've probably got the best people in football (which will be especially so if Guardiola joins us next summer), so the club has my full trust, under the Sheikh and Khaldoon they have an impeccable record with our satisfaction.

It might have looked a bit dodgy at first (cartoon style) just from seeing it on the internet, but images of the old badge on here don't do that justice. As soon as we all see it embroidered I'm sure we'll feel like City with all the class and style the old badge had. The eagle badge never really had that for me. I don't really know how to explain it but the old round badge seemed to suit the Manchester style more, it really felt like Manchester not just City and we'll have that with the new one which for me looks better than the old round one (which I love).

Any new badge would be a bit of a shock at first sight, but it's a good thing that it's quickly grown on people. It's in our nature to moan, so no surprise there but I'm happy with it, the club have done a great job again. I've tried to gauge a lot of opinions from fans of other clubs on Twitter etc. - they're right that the eagle stood out and was a good badge but it doesn't have as much of the symbolism and style our fans love. It's a split reaction from other fans (probably between those who like retro and those who aren't as much into it). What is obvious, is there are a lot of football morons on the internet who don't know their arse from their elbow (e.g. blue peter badge and apparently we're copying United, and it sounds like the ship is a totally new thing on our badge).
 
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