Monday, August 29, 2011

The Crest Of Barcelona

The story of the crest of Barcelona leads back to the beginning of the city. The club's original crest was a quartered diamond-shaped crest topped by the Crown of Aragon and the bat of King James, and surrounded by two branches, one of a laurel the and the other of a palm.
Then in 1910 came a major change of the crest. The crest was design by Carles Comamala, and it slightly differs from the crest of today's Barcelona. It's a bowl-shaped design, in which the two upper quarters maintain the St George cross and the red and yellow bars of the original, which are the most representative symbols of Barcelona and Catalonia. The club initials, FCB,  appear on a strip across the center, and below are the Barca colors and a ball.
The present crest is based on an adaptation made by designer Claret Serrahima, in 2002, in which the lines are a little more stylized, the dots between the letters have been taken away, the name has been made smaller, and there are fewer pointed edges. It's easy to reproduce in all kind of format.

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