The primary home uniform for the Mets is a white uniform with blue pinstripes, a conventional button-down jersey with short sleeves, and tackle-twill lettering in royal blue outlined in orange. įrom 1962–1998, the logo had a small interlocking 'NY' in block letters just to the left of the 'Mets' wordmark. The logo was designed by cartoonist Ray Gotto, creator of the Ozark Ike comic strip. Superimposed over the skyline behind the 'Mets' script are orange baseball stitches.

The skyline itself includes, from left to right, representations of a church spire (symbolizing Brooklyn, the 'borough of churches' ), the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building (tallest building in Brooklyn), the Woolworth Building, the Empire State Building, and the United Nations building. At the bottom of the circle is a generic image of a suspension bridge in white, symbolizing the joining of New York's five boroughs. The Mets' primary logo is a circular crest with an orange outline, containing a blue silhouetted representation of New York City's skyline against a white background, with the word 'Mets' in orange cursive script outlined in white just below the center of the circle. Since then the club has adopted blue alternate jerseys and caps but has generally worn its primary uniform in most games, home and away. For 2012, in recognition of its 50th Anniversary, the club restored its classic look by removing the black trim from all of its uniforms and phasing out the black jerseys and caps. The most notable variations were the 'racing stripe' uniforms of the 1980s and early '90s, and the addition of black as a trim color along with black alternate jerseys and caps that were worn from 1998 through 2011.

The basic template has always been a conventional short-sleeved baseball uniform with 'Mets' in cursive script on a white pinstriped home jersey, and either 'NEW YORK' or 'Mets' on a gray road jersey, with the lettering and numerals in blue outlined in orange. The original Mets uniform had a 'clean and classic' look that, while it has undergone a number of changes over the course of the team's history, has never been substantially revised. The Mets' uniform was designed to incorporate elements of both departed clubs, with the Dodgers' royal blue becoming the Mets' primary color and the Giants' orange the trim color, along with the Giants' 'NY' crest adopted as the new team's cap logo. The New York Mets, founded in 1962, returned National League baseball to New York following the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles and the New York Giants to San Francisco. New York Mets primary logo, originally designed by cartoonist Ray Gotto in 1962 and slightly revised in 1999.

Pinstriped panels