Company milestone · 1946-06-06
Walter A. Brown formed the Boston Celtics as a team in the Basketball Association of America. [1]
Boston Celtics Logo
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About Boston Celtics
Professional basketball team
The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference and play home games at TD Garden.
Walter A. Brown, president of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, formed the team on 6 June 1946 in the Basketball Association of America. It became part of the NBA in 1949 after the BAA merged with the National Basketball League.
The Celtics name and the mascot Lucky the Leprechaun refer to Boston’s historically large Irish population and to the Original Celtics, a barnstorming basketball team of the early 20th century.
The team has won 18 NBA championships, the first in 1957.
Sources: [1]
Company: National Basketball Association.
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Boston Celtics logo files at a glance
Boston Celtics has 2 downloadable files in AI, PNG in this archive. 1 logo record is catalogued; that is not the number of verified redesigns.
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Brand heritage
Logo history & brand milestones
One logo record is catalogued. The milestones below are dated separately from it.
The Celtics’ leprechaun logo with its 1996 full-colour version, the 1998 shamrock alternate and the 2014 silhouette alternate. The sources checked give different dates for Zang Auerbach’s original leprechaun drawing, so no year is recorded for it. Company and product dates are labelled separately from design changes.
Company milestone · 1949-08-03
The Celtics became part of the National Basketball Association following the merger of the BAA and the National Basketball League. [1]
Logo milestone · 1996
For the 1996–97 season, the club’s 50th anniversary, the leprechaun logo, until then green, white and black only, received full colour: tan face and hands, gold vest, bow tie and hat, brown ball and shillelagh, and black trousers and shoes. [1]
Logo milestone · 1998
An alternate logo of a white shamrock in a green circle, with the word Celtics above it, came into use for the 1998–99 season. [1]
Logo milestone · 2014-07
The Celtics unveiled the “Lucky Alternate”, a secondary logo created in-house that shows a white silhouette of Lucky in a bowler hat, smoking a pipe, spinning a basketball and leaning on a cane, against green with the words Boston Celtics around it. [1] [2]
Research sources
- Boston Celtics ↗ · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-25
- Celtics unveil new ‘Lucky the Leprechaun’ alternate logo ↗ · Sports Illustrated, 2014-07-21 · accessed 2026-09-25
Compiled 2026-09-25 by AI-assisted source review. Each statement links its sources; an editor has not yet independently confirmed them.
Colour sample
Sampled artwork colours
Green (primary sample)Primary
- HEX
- #008844
- RGB
- 0, 136, 68
Text contrast on white4.56:1 · AA
Text contrast on near-black4.14:1 · Fail
Black (accent sample)Accent
- HEX
- #221122
- RGB
- 34, 17, 34
Text contrast on white17.93:1 · AAA
Text contrast on near-black1.05:1 · Fail
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Design context
Logo design & typography notes
Wikipedia credits the original design of the leprechaun logo to Zang Auerbach, brother of Celtics head coach Red Auerbach. Sports Illustrated describes Zang as a former editorial and sports artist for Washington newspapers and dates the illustration honoured by the 2014 alternate logo to the early 1960s.
The shamrock alternate logo is based on logos the Celtics used before the Zang Auerbach leprechaun, and for much of its history the shamrock was trimmed in gold.
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Reference
Frequently asked
Who designed the Boston Celtics logo?
Leprechaun logo (Lucky) is credited to Zang Auerbach. The designer of the specific file version shown on this page is not recorded. [1] [2]
Can I use the Boston Celtics logo?
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When did Boston Celtics change its logo?
1996: For the 1996–97 season, the club’s 50th anniversary, the leprechaun logo, until then green, white and black only, received full colour: tan face and hands, gold vest, bow tie and hat, brown ball and shillelagh, and black trousers and shoes. 1998: An alternate logo of a white shamrock in a green circle, with the word Celtics above it, came into use for the 1998–99 season. 2014-07: The Celtics unveiled the “Lucky Alternate”, a secondary logo created in-house that shows a white silhouette of Lucky in a bowler hat, smoking a pipe, spinning a basketball and leaning on a cane, against green with the words Boston Celtics around it. [1] [2]
What file formats are available for the Boston Celtics logo in this archive?
Available file formats: AI, PNG. Dimensions, source and usage conditions are listed for each file below.
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