NHL Font: The 2017 All-Star Hollywood Uniform Typeface

Jeremy Nelson’s Hollywood Typeface case study documents a custom name-and-number design for the 2017 NHL All-Star Game, inspired by the Hollywood sign. It credits Dom Fillion as creative director and Nelson as designer. This is a specific event-uniform alphabet. It does not identify the NHL shield lettering or establish a single font for every club, season and broadcast.

The case places the type within the entire uniform kit rather than treating its letters as an isolated wordmark. For your own unrelated team mockup, set a short player name, a long surname and a two-digit number. Keep the same back-panel width while comparing how the name and number share the space. Decide whether the surname needs another line or a genuinely different width resource instead of automatically distorting the characters. Graduate and Anton here are independent comparisons, not the original Hollywood typeface.

Nelson explicitly states that this font is not for sale or use. The case is therefore a reference for understanding the documented commission, not a public production resource. Choose a separately licensed family for an independent uniform and retain its complete family and style name with the artwork. A social team message is another task: the homepage’s copyable character styles use Unicode substitutions. They neither install the All-Star font nor carry its original letter outlines into an embroidery or printing application.

For a different event-and-league comparison, the NBA typography guide separates its documented identity work from a universal jersey specification. Keep each commission attached to its own evidence.