Steelman wrote:

I think The Netherlands look fantastic! Can't go wrong with a good orange and black color scheme. Super sharp set. The NL interlock is cool but the crown is also nice. Can't lose either way.

Columbia is okay. I don't really love it or hate it but I can't really pin down why. I think it would look cleaner with no outlines on the home or vice versa.

So as I mentioned on the Discord, I went down the rabbit hole of Great Britain vs United Kingdom, etc, and my takeaway as an American who also doesn't fully understand their logic (or lack thereof) is that I feel like Britain doesn't work by itself. If they were to go by Britain they'd just go by England? I think you have to stick with Great Britain. Otherwise the set is solid. I didn't like the Tuscan style lettering at first but it's growing on me. It didn't immediately strike me as "British" but the set looks really nice. If I were to suggest a different direction, an ornate GB monogram on the cap and jerseys would be the way to go imo, that way you can ditch the need for a wordmark altogether. But yeah, it's definitely better than their previous efforts so I think it's a "great" start!

Thanks! With GB it definitely comes down to the very, very weird way they do sports there. Sometimes each country (England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland) gets its own team, sometimes they combine, sometimes they do something else entirely, it's really hard to square as an American. Just "England" doesn't feel right because the team could include Scottish, Welsh, or Northern Irish players, but at that point it would just be the United Kingdom... I'll give it a try with a GB monogram! I think that might be the best move.

NICARAGUA

Last edited by sky (3/18/2026 11:13 am)

I really like Australia. Obv very "A's" but it's a good look. The aboriginal art stripes are great. The only quibble I have is I wish the stars around the A in the wordmark were on the other side as it seems a little busy and unbalanced with the front number there as well. But otherwise fantastic!

Nicaragua looks great! Clean, simple, sharp. 

I like the idea for Canada but I'm not sold on that particular shade combo. I think the colors need just a bit more contrast, probably a deeper/darker maroon. But the set itself is nice!

weirdly, red-heavy cuba feels odd to me. probably the altlb fan in me. in a vacuum, I like your original home set a lot, but I agree that the updated red-primary version feels better as a whole. I do prefer the gray pants to the red but it's not a bad look

the single-layer wordmark on italy is a big improvement. I see what you were going for on the placket piping but I think it would make more sense if it was single on both (or double on both, but I think the single makes more sense on this set). I will be a little contrarian and say that while I like the new cap logo in theory, I'm not sure I like it in practice. you've already got the flag on the sleeve, you don't have green or red anywhere else in the set, and the new I ends up looking too blocky, and for lack of a better word, childish. maybe the I from the script would work better?

korea is definitely a different look, but I like it. the light blue definitely helps them stand out. I do think this is the best case for white pants on the road yet, since the gray doesn't mesh well with the blue here. I'm also not sure the script works well with the number font, but overall, solid work

thank you for removing "kingdom of the" from the dutch set, and thank you also for leaning into the orange, it being such a unique color in the wbc. I'm not a huge fan of the NL logo, so I like the crown on the hat as well. really not much to complain about here

I'm with steel in that colombia feels a little unsatisfying but I'm not totally sure why. I think the outlines on the home wordmark are a bit too much. the sleeve stripes matching the flag are nice, but I'm not sure why the ones on the pants don't. I do like the choice of yellow as a unique primary color, tho

anything you did for great britain would be better than their awful current identity, but I'm not sure this is it. like steel, "britain" on the chest doesn't feel like the right choice, and the B on the cap certainly feels wrong (I'm awaiting the GB monogram). the font also feels a little too ornate, especially for the name and numbers

I really like the aboriginal-inspired striping on australia, but the rest of it feels a little ... uninspired, I guess. I don't particularly like the wordmark font, nor do I like the southern cross on the wordmark (although I think it works on the hat). maybe if the numbers matched the wordmark it'd feel a little more cohesive? idk. I do think the version without the front numbers is better

nicaragua is simple but solid. if I had one suggestion, it might be to match the blue on the jersey to the blue on the flag (although in my memory (and in wikipedia) the blue on the flag is a bit darker than how you've portrayed it, so it may actually be close)

the new shade of red for canada is definitely better, but it doesn't fix my biggest problem with the set, which is that the font you've chosen makes the wordmarks feel very crowded and kind of hard to read at home. that said, I much prefer maroon to black (I'm usually of the opinion that canada should be entirely or mostly red and white, so that's nice to see) and the 4 nations leaf is a great cap logo

brazil without any green is a little weird but looks nice. I would like to see a little bit of it somewhere but I don't have any immediate good ideas on how to accomplish that. incorporating more yellow into the set is definitely the right move, tho

hard to believe we're already almost at the home stretch! can't wait to see how you wrap this one up