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Optic Yellow Tennis Ball — Cover

About Optic Yellow Tennis Ball

The optic-yellow tennis ball — adopted by the ITF in 1972 so the ball would read clearly on colour television — is a fuzzy fluoro yellow-green felt sphere wrapped by a single white curved seam. This system turns that object into an interface language: a vivid optic field that never goes white, a sweeping white seam as the signature line, and teal hard-court panels for contrast.

The voice is broadcast tennis: condensed all-caps scoreboard headlines, lower-third stat blocks, and clean graphic structure. Nothing is muted, glossy, or playful — the field stays electric, the felt stays fuzzy, and white is reserved for the seam.

Learn more about the Optic Yellow Tennis Ball style

Origin
Global / Internet — International Tennis Federation, worldwide broadcast tennis
Era
1950–1990 (ITF adopted optic yellow in 1972; current broadcast reading ~2000s onward)
Key figures
International Tennis Federation (ITF) · David Attenborough
Movements
Sports broadcast design · TV-visibility colour engineering

Optic Yellow Tennis Ball design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

ArchivoHeadings
BarlowBody
Saira CondensedMono
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