| Introduction Germany 1996 Willem II 2002 Real Madrid 2003 AC Milan 2004 Chelsea 2004 Roda JC 2004 FC Utrecht 2004 Ajax 2004 Cameroon 2004 Italy 2004 Sporting 2004 Bayern München 2005 Schalke 04 Real Madrid 2005 FC Twente 2005 NAC/Vitesse 2005 Italy 2006 Netherlands 2006 Sevilla 2006 | | In 2001 I designed my own shirt numbers. Starting points were my knowledge about type design and legibility. This design was used by the team of Willem II from Tilburg, the Netherlands in the season 2002-2003. In fact, these figures were drawn with a 5 centimeters broad brush and black ink on A3 sheets of paper. The resulting shapes were scanned and digitized and later on a contour was added. No explicit typeface was used as a model, but the 1 can be traced back to the figure used on the former Dutch 'cent'. Based on the experience with these King's figures I later on designed some more sets of shirt numbers (see: new designs). | | |