Today marks DetroitHockey.Net’s nineteenth birthday and over at the site, I’ve unveiled the 20th Season logo.
The logo is based on the “promotional” DetroitHockey.Net logo featuring the site’s shied logo inside a roundel. This roundel is broken by a bar featuring the years 1996 and 2016. The top half of the roundel says “DetroitHockey.Net” in a more condensed type treatment than the base logo. With the year of establishment already in the logo, the bottom half of the roundel includes the text “Twentieth Season.”
Like DH.N’s previous anniversary logos, this one was designed as if it were a jersey patch for a sports team. Unlike the previous ones, this one is also intended to match the existing logos of DetroitHockey.Net’s identity.
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