Good Sports
Brand Standards · v2Good Sports Creative · Portland, OR

Good Sports
Creative

Brand guidelines and asset resource.

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Overview

Good Sports Creative is an agency unlike any other — built to serve sports teams, leagues and sport culture. Our identity borrows from the game itself: the colors of a day game sky, the geometry of a jersey, the stitched lettering of a team patch.

The idea in five lines

  • Blue is the foundation. Three blues reflect the full game-day atmosphere — morning warm-ups, the scoreboard, the sky under stadium lights.
  • Jersey is the system. Seams, stripes, mesh and color-blocking become our pattern library and our layouts.
  • Stitched type is the hero. The SportStitch family makes handmade and precise live together.
  • Real photography, lightly treated. From us or our work. No stock.
  • Each project gets its own look within the system — never generic.

Source decks For reference only

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Color

Blue first. Three blues carry the game-day sky; warm accents come from sunrise, sunset and the jersey. Click any swatch to copy its hex.

Primary palette

Secondary palette Accents

Accent colors that look great with blue, based on the changing colors of the sky and the jersey.

Proportion Proposed

Lead with Twilight Navy and Jersey Off White, support with Morning Blue, and use warm colors as spikes of energy.

Navy 38%
Off White 28%
Morning 16%
Yellow

Approved pairings

Text/background pairs with WCAG contrast ratios.

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Typography

SportStitch is our custom display family, built on Barlow. It looks sewn on a jersey but sets like a clean modern grotesque. Use it big, for headlines and moments.

Game day 2026!

The family

Bold

SportStitch Bold

Headlines, jersey numbers, anything that has to hit hard.

Normal

SportStitch Normal

Subheads and shorter lines where Bold is too loud.

2 Color

SportStitch 2Color

Fill plus stitch line in one font file. Set a fill color and a thread color.

Outline

SportStitch Outline

Dashed stitch only. Layer it over Bold in a second color for a full patch.

Cutout

SportStitch Cutout

Fill with stitch knocked out — great on photography and textures.

SportStitch specimen sheet

Specimen sheet

All styles with the full character set — letters, numbers and punctuation.

Try it

Home team

Roles

Display / headlinesSportStitch Bold
Body & UIBarlow — clean, modern and athletic. Use Regular, Medium and SemiBold.
Slides (legacy)Oswald was used for headlines in Google Slides. Transition to SportStitch / Barlow.
Moving away from Bebas Neue and Inter Tight. The most important type is the headline face — SportStitch Bold replaces it everywhere you can install the font.
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Patterns & Textures

Our wallpaper. Jersey-inspired patterns — pinstripes, stripes, sashes, checkers, chevrons — in brand colors, plus black and white fabric textures to layer on top.

Jersey patterns

Fabric textures

Black and white fabric textures to layer over colors and patterns. The white texture is shown on dark and the black texture on light so you can see the weave. Layer them over color or pattern and reduce opacity until the weave is felt, not seen.

Pattern builder Make a backdrop for the image generator

Pick a pattern, two colors and a fabric overlay. You get a preview, a PNG to attach as the fabric backdrop, and a written spec to paste into the stitched type prompt.

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Stitched Type Effect

For hero moments, we turn type into thread: thick appliqué letters, sewn onto real fabric. It's generated with a conversational AI image tool and a reusable prompt that interviews you first.

Stitched type on jersey patterns and fabric: New York, Thank You, Good Sports, Hello
Output example: Welcome, we are Good Sports
Output example
SportStitch Barlow specimen in two colors

What you send to the model

1 · Type reference
2 · Texture reference
.md
3 · Instruction file

The model will ask, one at a time

  1. What text?The exact word or phrase.
  2. Letter fill colorA name or a hex, e.g. #f54d02.
  3. Stitch thread colorA name or a hex.
  4. Canvas size9:16 vertical, 1:1 square or 16:9 landscape.
  5. Type sizeLarge, medium or small, relative to canvas.
  6. Vertical positionTop, center or bottom.
  7. AlignmentLeft, right or center.
Tip: Create a Gemini Gem with the prompt in its instructions, then each run is “attach images, type start.” Use normal chat mode, not image mode, so it asks before it draws.
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Photography

Natural photography, very lightly treated. Real moments from us or our work — not stock.

Original photo Treated photo
TreatedOriginal

The treatment

  • Add a little grain.
  • Desaturate the colors a little.
  • Lift the shadows a bit.
  • Stop there. If you can see the edit, it's too much.

Principles

Ours, not stock

Any photography should come from us or from our work.

Specific to the page

On the website, imagery relates to the page it sits on — not generic “sports.”

Natural

Real light, real people, real moments. Light retouching only.

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VC Backdrops

Virtual and physical backdrops for calls, interviews and content: a suite overlooking the game, with the Good Sports mark ghosted into the glass. Click to enlarge or download full-size.

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Social & Digital

Where the brand lives online. Each profile uses the same logo system, with the banner showing our most current campaign.

LinkedIn

Good Sports Creative

We specialize in sports advertising. From sport brands to any brand playing in sports culture.

Advertising Services · Portland, OR · 172 followers · 2–10 employees
  • Profile logo — square logo, full name.
  • Banner — a still reflecting the most current campaign. Refresh with each new campaign.
  • Description — “We specialize in sports advertising. From sport brands to any brand playing in sports culture.”

Formats: LinkedIn 1080×1350 · YouTube Shorts 1080×1920.

Favicon & monogram GS

Square logo, initials only. Tiny logos must stay legible at 16 px.

GS favicon on navy
GS favicon on blue
GS favicon navy on blue
GS favicon white on blue

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Social share image

The image that appears when someone shares our URL on social networks or in text messages. Copy: “We're Good Sports, we specialize in sports advertising.”

Share card in Messages, orange Share card in Messages, green
Share image is currently FPO (for placement only). A final version will replace it.

Where it lives

ChannelAsset
LinkedInProfile logo — square, full name · Banner — still from current campaign
YouTubeProfile logo — square, full name
WebsiteFavicon — square, initials only · Social share image
EmailSignature logo — .png, in color or black
OtherCreds deck · Templates for internal decks
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Merch

Approved designs, live in the official store.

Official Good Sports merch store: https://good-sports-creative-shop.fourthwall.com/
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Templates

Starting points for recurring formats. Each presentation should still strive to have its own look and feel for its topic — but pages like script pages can be standardized.

Animated example of the LinkedIn Q&A post

LinkedIn Q&A template

Expert soundbyte posts: portrait, name and brand, quote, audio waveform and timer. The only download is the After Effects package (QAtemplate.zip), which includes the project, footage and a report.

Coming  Audio animation generator.

Paper & baseball-card texture

Retro card framing with the stitched-shadow logo, a rounded photo window and a role badge. The cards above are an example only.

Paper texture overlay preview

This download is the paper texture overlay only (white weathered paper) — not the finished baseball card.

Download paper texture overlay (PNG)

Formats

FormatSize
LinkedIn post1080 × 1350
YouTube Shorts1080 × 1920
Zoom / virtual backdrop16:9
Stitched type canvas9:16 · 1:1 · 16:9
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Slides

Starting points for the decks we build most. Each presentation should still have its own look and feel for its topic, but standard pages — script pages, section dividers, credits — can come straight from the template.

Good Sports slide template deck

One Google Slides deck with every standard slide plus full example decks (RFP response, creative framework, script, financial overview). Make a copy, then style it for your topic.

Slide previews

Previews are coming. Open the deck above to see every slide.

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Voice

Confident, warm, a little cheeky. We're sports people who take the work seriously and ourselves lightly. We speak sport and we expect you to understand what we're saying because you do too.

Tagline idea

We're Good Sports and we're good sports.

Approved direction. Double meaning, easy to say.

Boilerplate

We're Good Sports, we specialize in sports advertising. From sport brands to any brand playing in sports culture.

Still to build Asset opportunities

AssetNotes
Brand voice & messagingTaglines and slogans that communicate our values and differentiate us.
Texture & design assetsConsistent design elements for presentations and brand expressions — now covered by Patterns & Textures.
TemplatesCreative and production decks with slide variations. Each should have its own look; some pages can be standardized.
Case studies & testimonialsSuccess stories as social proof to build trust with new clients.
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Downloads & Drive

Everything here is also available as original files. Downloads work from this site's folder, and the shared Google Drive folder holds the master copies.

Brand ID deck

Base brand elements: logo, colors, photo treatment, LinkedIn, favicon, social share.

Design Presentation

Supplemental: jersey textures, SportStitch font, zoom backgrounds, merch.

Good Sports slide template deck

Covers, overviews, selectors and closers for the decks we build most. Make a copy, then style it for your topic.

Files

AssetFilesPath
LogoWhite PNG (transparent) + color variantsLogo_white.png
SportStitch fonts.otf and .woff2 for Normal, Bold, Outline, 2Color, Cutout + specimen_SportStitch font files/
Patterns25 jersey patterns, 7680 × 4321 PNGfabric/sport-patterns/
Fabric texturesBlack and white, 3840 × 2160fabric/
Stitched typePrompt template, specimen, exampletext effect/
BackdropsBaseball, Soccer, F1, Footballzoom backgrounds/
Decks
Brand ID deckBase brand elements (Google Slides)Open ↗
Design PresentationJersey textures, font, backdrops, merch (Google Slides)Open ↗
Slide template deckCovers, overviews, selectors, closers (Google Slides)Open ↗ · Make a copy ↗