What's the deal with the pink thumbprints and the shitty font?

Maybe I'm just being pedantic here because I have a marketing/graphic design background, but this shit looks dreadful and completely off-brand:
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In the 25 years I've followed the Blazers, they've never, ever used red as a gradient because (obviously) as soon as solid red gets a little white it becomes pink. And pink is a shitty color for a sports team. Nobody ever, ever uses pink. But here we are. Are you excited to wear a pink jersey next year if this shit continues to roll out? Because I'm not.

And they've added the weird random isobar lines which resemble nothing recognizable to the Blazers brand. I guess I'm supposed to think of maps and somehow the pinwheel, but really it just looks like a fucked up thumbprint Damon Stoudamire might've smeared on a blotter after being really high in an airport.

And the font---jesus where the fuck did the above font (in Portland Trail Blazers) come from? It looks like something from the default menu of Word in 1999.

There's enough wrong with the current version of the Blazers without them crapping all over the branding. Whoever signed off on this shit needs to be fired.

Unless it was Olshey, in which case he needs to be re-hired and fired again.

 

lol I think the holidays might be stressing you out. Their social media marketing graphics are fine. Not awesome sure, but they make dozens of them a game, they’re throw-aways. And lay off pink, don’t be afraid of a color. Didn’t the Heat embrace it?

 

What are the coordinates?

And why is the top triangle grey?

 

I’m with you regarding this choice in graphics. Looks like they hired @THE HCP to stomp grapes for the rose and then had him step on some paper.

 

Being worried about pink seems odd, but whatever.

Fairly certain the fingerprint is a topographical map, most likely of Mt. Hood. Similar to what our City jerseys had on them last season.

 

Alright this was actually funny! I will pass along your grievances guys. Trust me, you aren’t the first to complain. I know how bad we are at doing our jobs, but this has nothing to do with the broadcast department if that means anything.

 

Maybe they are using Canva or something.

 

Be honest S2…

How many of you had to google pedantic?

 

ONLY A MATTER UNTIL I FIND THEIR TEMPLATE

 

Lol ive used it like a 100 times on this forum. One of my fave words and describes a few posters really well here

 

@mook they are even using your favorite red gradient in their paid ad campaigns

 

It's a perfectly cromulent word.

 

Learned that in high school.
Along with obtuse.. and caustic.
Not sure i learned much else though…

 

STOP USING WORDS @THE HCP DOESN’T UNDERSTAND!

 

https://www.dictionary.com/

 

As Jack Benny would say "Now cut that out!"