Editing Indianapolis Colts (section)

==Logos and uniforms==
[[File:Indianapolis Colts 2002-2020 wordmark.svg|alt="COLTS" in blue|thumb|left|150px|The Colts' former wordmark logo, used from 1984 to 2019.]]

The Colts' helmets in 1953 were white with a blue stripe. In 1954–55 they were blue with a white stripe and a pair of horseshoes at the rear of the helmet. For 1956, the colors were reversed, white helmet, blue stripe and horseshoes at the rear. In 1957, the horseshoes moved to their current location, one on each side of the helmet.

The blue jerseys have white shoulder stripes and the white jerseys have blue stripes. The team also wears white pants with blue stripes down the sides. Both designs originally had sleeve stripes, but by 1957, the uniforms changed to its current form, which evolved as materials changed.

For much of the team's history, the Colts wore blue socks, accenting them with two or three white stripes for much of their history in Baltimore and during the 2004 and 2005 seasons. From 1982 to 1987, the blue socks featured gray stripes. For a period lasting 1955 to 1958 and again from 1988 to 1992, the Colts wore white socks with either two or three blue stripes.

From 1982 through 1986, the Colts wore gray pants with their blue jerseys. The gray pants featured a horseshoe on the top of the sides with the player's number inside the horseshoe. The Colts continued to wear white pants with their white jerseys throughout this period, and in 1987, the gray pants were retired.

The Colts wore blue pants with their white jerseys for the first three games of the [[1995 NFL season|1995 season]] (pairing them with white socks), but then returned to white pants with both the blue and white jerseys. The team made some minor uniform adjustments before the start of the [[2004 NFL season|2004 season]], including reverting from blue to the traditional gray face masks, darkening their blue colors from a royal blue to speed blue, as well as adding two white stripes to the socks. In 2006, the stripes were removed from the socks.

In 2002, the Colts made a minor striping pattern change on their jerseys, having the stripes only on top of the shoulders then stop completely. Previously, the stripes used to go around to underneath the jersey sleeves. This was done because the Colts, like many other football teams, were beginning to manufacture the jerseys to be tighter to reduce holding calls and reduce the size of the sleeves. Although the white jerseys of the [[Minnesota Vikings]] at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such (as well as the [[Throwback uniform|throwbacks]] the [[New&nbsp;England Patriots]] wore in the [[NFL on Thanksgiving Day|Thanksgiving game]] against the [[Detroit Lions]] in [[2002 NFL season|2002]], though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in [[2009 NFL season|2009]] with truncated stripes and in [[2010 NFL season|2010]] became their official [[Third jersey|alternate uniform]]), the Colts and most [[college football|college]] teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

In 2017, the Colts brought back the blue pants but paired them with the blue jerseys as part of the [[NFL Color Rush]] program.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hollebon|first=Ross|title=Colts To Sport Blue-On-Blue Look For First Time Ever On Thursday|url=https://www.colts.com/news/colts-to-sport-blue-on-blue-look-for-first-time-ever-on-thursday-19969722|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=Colts.com|date=December 12, 2017|access-date=October 27, 2019|archive-date=October 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028134714/https://www.colts.com/news/colts-to-sport-blue-on-blue-look-for-first-time-ever-on-thursday-19969722|url-status=live}}</ref>

The club revealed an updated wordmark logo, as well as updated numeral fonts, on April&nbsp;13, 2020. While blue and white remained the team's core colors, they added black as a tertiary color, with its usage restricted to the embroidered Nike swoosh on the white uniforms.<ref>{{cite news|author=Colts Communications|title=New Colts Logos, Looks Join Iconic 'Horseshoe' For 2020 And Beyond|url=https://www.colts.com/news/uniform-brand-update-2020|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=Colts.com|date=April 13, 2020|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414030627/https://www.colts.com/news/uniform-brand-update-2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Shook|first=Nick|title=Colts add new logo to their look, honor home state|url=https://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001109101/article/colts-add-new-logo-to-their-look-honor-home-state|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NFL.com|date=April 13, 2020|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=April 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414065053/http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001109101/article/colts-add-new-logo-to-their-look-honor-home-state|url-status=dead}}</ref> Despite the wordmark change, the previous wordmarks were still painted on the Lucas Oil Stadium end zones until 2024, when the Colts unveiled a new turf surface.<ref>{{citation|title=Indianapolis Colts field design history|url=https://gridiron-uniforms.com/fields/controller/controller.php?action=view-team-all&team_id=IND&city=Indianapolis&name=Colts|publisher=The Gridiron Fields Database|access-date=September 16, 2021}}</ref>

On July&nbsp;20, 2023, the Colts unveiled a new alternate uniform, including a black alternate helmet.<ref name="q674">{{cite web | last=Stankevitz | first=JJ | title=Colts unveil 'Indiana Nights' alternate uniform | website=Colts.com | date=2023-07-20 | url=https://www.colts.com/news/alternate-jerseys-black-helmets-indiana-nights-blue-heather-browns-game | access-date=2024-08-18}}</ref> The jersey remained blue, but added black trim to the numbers and moved the white sleeve stripes to the shoulders. The "Indiana&nbsp;C" alternate logo was placed on the left shoulder. Blue pants with white stripes are paired with this uniform. In a first for the franchise, the Colts would wear black helmets with the uniform, maintaining almost the same look as the primary white helmet save for the increased usage of black.<ref>{{cite news|last=Baca|first=Michael|title=Indianapolis Colts unveil new 'Indiana Nights' alternate uniform|url=https://www.nfl.com/news/indianapolis-colts-unveil-new-indiana-nights-color-rush-uniform|publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC|website=NFL.com|date=July 20, 2023|access-date=July 20, 2023}}</ref>