5 ms·
Yahoo reveals its new logo
- plainOldText 13y agoNo offense, but it looks like shit! The letters are too thin and don't have beautiful proportions.
- packetslave 13y agoEver notice how, when someone starts a sentence with "no offense, but...", the very next thing they say/write tends to be really offensive?
- crazypyro 13y agoI call it the "No offense, but fuck you."
- plainOldText 13y agoThere is some truth in that.
- thecooluser 13y agoBleh.
- untog 13y agoGet rid of the 3D depth effect they've put on the letters, and it looks fine.
- Gigablah 13y agoI don't understand why they added the bevel, it looks like WordArt :(
- ekianjo 13y agoYeah, it looks pretty bad. I guess it's just a matter of time unless everyone gets used to it. I think they should spend more time on their services than their branding, however. Playing with a logo is great, but in terms of value it's close to zero.
- JEVLON 13y agoI avoid literally everything that is owned by Yahoo. This is almost entirely due to how they present themselves. A bad logo is evidence of a company that does not care about their products or services. They are finally making steps to improve their image.
- mrslx 13y agoWow, they are really trying very hard to come up with silly gimmicks to stay top-of-mind, only way to sell ads these days.
- Zaheer 13y agoThe bevel only makes it look even more antiquated. At a moment like this you would think they would go for a 'fresher' look.
- keypusher 13y agoI think it looks pretty bad, but this was the first time I visited a Yahoo site in years so I guess their plan is working.
- cperciva 13y agoOut of the 30 days of logos, this one looks most similar to day 7 to me -- which according to Survata was the second most popular out of the 30: http://survata.com/blog/yahoo-showed-us-30-days-of-logos/ http://survata.com/blog/yahoo-showed-us-30-days-of-logos/
- Zaheer 13y agoFor reference, full list of higher-res logos by day at: http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
- twodayslate 13y agoI wonder why they didn't pick the top choice. It looks better to me.
- cperciva 13y agoWell, it isn't exactly the same -- the day 7 wasn't 3D and was a heavier typeface. But in survata's tests day 7 and day 10 were very close together -- 45% and 47%, compared to 36% or lower for others -- so it would be entirely possible for yahoo to have tested all 30 and had those two rank oppositely.
- cschmidt 13y agoIt is a better shade of purple. The bevel is kind of gross, and I'm just left a bit disappointed. A missed opportunity to do something great.
- brettcvz 13y agoThe bevel bothers me as well, especially dark bevel on white background.
- bloodorange 13y agoI just saw it as a new logo. I didn't notice the details (bevel, choice of colours, etc.) but my first impression when I saw the logo was "Nice!". Maybe it's mainly targeted at people like me who are not very discerning when it comes to visual content.
- colmvp 13y agoThe bevel is pretty ugly and unnecessary.
- chatman 13y agoYahoo's red logo back in 90s was their best ever. All this purple doesn't look good.
- richardjordan 13y agoAnticlimax. The down side about a strategy like this is that it's very unlikely that you'll produce anything OTHER THAN an anticlimactic sense of meh.
- aroman 13y agoAgreed. Though frankly for a company in Yahoo!'s straits, it seems like almost any press is good press.
- ffk 13y agoFor comparison, Google's logo also has a bevel and the first letter englarged extending below the baseline.
- Rumudiez 13y agoI don't believe that it's enlarged, rather most lower curves aside from Os cross the baseline, especially capital letters, in most typefaces.
- brickmort 13y agoyou know what? i like it. for the past month or so i kept thinking "this is such a bad idea on yahoo's part..." but now that the new logo's here, i realized that it is, in fact, a good move. it's sleek, modern yet it still looks 'familiar'. kudos to the yahoo design/marketing team.
- brickmort 13y agoyou know what? i like it. for the past month or so i kept thinking "this is such a bad idea on yahoo's part..." but now that the new logo's here, i realized that it is, in fact, a good move. it's sleek, modern yet it still looks 'familiar'. kudos to the yahoo design/marketing team.
- wpeterson 13y agoIt looks like our data on Polar Polls predicted the new logo selection in advance: http://polarb.com/polls/tags/yahoo30 http://polarb.com/polls/tags/yahoo30
- georgebonnr 13y agoI would think they would need more than anybody right now to broadcast a fresh and youthful design. This doesn't seem to be either. Odd...
- kaplejon 13y agoThis logo looks great in the "white on background" flavor, but I have to shake my head at its "purple with bevel" iteration. A win and a loss, in the same small reveal.
- abdophoto 13y agoThe bevel looks pretty bad. I really liked what they day 10 and day 1.
- georgebonnr 13y agoIf you watch the video the logo looks fantastic from 0:25 to about 0:33. And then everything goes to shit.
- enraged_camel 13y agoDid Yahoo! need a new logo, or is this some kind of "look at us, we're re-inventing ourselves!" theater?
- ritchiea 13y agoWhat exactly do you consider the purpose of a logo to be?
- georgebonnr 13y agoAnd what is going on with the exclamation mark by the search bar when you visit this page? http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo sigh...
- twodayslate 13y agoSeems fun to me.
- georgebonnr 13y agoLooks herky jerky and overwrought on my machine. Don't mind the idea, just seems exaggerated in the execution.
- ZirconCode 13y agoHey! it's that wibbly wobbly new fangled web 2.0 thingamajig I've heard about~
- null_ptr 13y agoWell good for them for making the logo changing process fun to follow. A logo is after all only a small part of a company's success (compared to the actual value of its products), might as well have a light-hearted attitude about it.
- kjjj333asf 13y agoNot sure why people are so bitter, but personally I think it looks good. In fact, I even like the bevel... adds a touch of nostalgia to the 1990's.
- BenoitEssiambre 13y agoUse random primary colors for the letters and you are not far from the Google logo. EDIT: I gnu image manipulated it: http://imgur.com/XajyMr7 http://imgur.com/XajyMr7
- undoware 13y agoTerrible. This is so embarrassing. We're losing you, Marissa.
- Nomlab 13y agoWow, can't believe they took such a big step backwards. Purple w/ black shadow and bevel ... this must have been a decision by committee.
- gojomo 13y agoAnimated logos are the future - including on storefronts, the tops of monumental buildings, and vehicles.
- blackysky 13y agothe logo is bad and I'm not even hating, the 3D effect is horrible on a large screen with a high resolution. Drop that weird word art effect...
- psteinweber 13y agoFeels to early for a tribute to the 00s.
- uptown 13y agoFor a few days some people will say it sucks, and some people will say they like it better - then nobody say much of anything about their logo ... new or old. Ultimately, they'll still be facing the same challenges they faced 31 days ago ... just like every company they call their competition.
- mwfunk 13y agoI guess I'm insane but I actually think it's a big improvement. If changing their branding goes along with improving their content and actually coming back from the brink, then people might remember it more fondly than they're reacting to it now. If there are no other meaningful changes and Yahoo goes down, then it'll be remembered poorly.
- JacobSkyler 13y agoI like it too. The proportions look a lot nicer and so does the colour. The only grounds I can see for criticising it is that it doesn't follow the 'flat design' aesthetic, but I don't think that's a problem. Plenty of logos don't.
- eksith 13y agoI feel like there's a hint of Google in there. Could just be my imagination, but with the exception of the much sharper center gradient divide, it's a close 3D effect. The only other difference is the uneven font size.
- redler 13y agoIt's easy to be reductive and pick apart other people's work. Time may prove this to be an iconic choice. But it does look a bit like the logos designed in the early 2000s using the Optima font and a Fireworks bevel filter, high video production values notwithstanding. It's not made that way, of course, but Googling for logos using Optima yields vast fields of results with a strong family resemblance. Tangentially, it's amusing that businesses named "Optima" often choose that eponymous font. Even American Express did this with the Optima line of credit cards.
- joshdotsmith 13y agoCan someone please do a 99designs project to see if they get a better logo from that?
- TheZenPsycho 13y agoIt says "My parents named me something stupid, but please take me seriously now. I'm a businessman. Look at my suit."
- avenger123 13y agoIt's nice. It kind of grows on you. Feels more modern (which if that was the goal, mission accomplished). Seems to work even better as animated gif (like on the main home page). I'm glad the logo didn't get completely butchered into something unrecognizable. That would have been a big loss of brand equity. I feel the old logo just needed some modern tones and these new logo has it.
- themodelplumber 13y agoThat "blueprint" in the video is pulled right out of thin air. Sort of the pinnacle of the "we live in a scientific world and I don't know science so I'm making this up as an excuse for my intuition" thing.
- swr 13y agoReminds me of the Twitter logo video [1], but at least that one made sense with respect to how the logo was created from three sets of overlapping circles [2]. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh20pdCrCAU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh20pdCrCAU [2] https://blog.twitter.com/2012/taking-flight-twitterbird https://blog.twitter.com/2012/taking-flight-twitterbird
- balloot 13y agoYou have to give Yahoo's marketing team credit. If they had just made this change with no greater context, people would have said "meh" and moved on. But through some clever marketing techniques the entire internet is abuzz (and has been for a month) about a minor change in font. Seriously - the change itself is utterly uninteresting and uninspired. So nice job, Yahoo marketers!
- avenger123 13y agoI would say that a minor change in font is a pretty big deal. The symbolism of the new logo is much more important than the change it self. It screams of rebirth and new beginnings without completely tearing out the foundation.
- SCdF 13y agoStill with the ! eh. Surprising.
- anologwintermut 13y agoAt least it actually reflects what most users think: that they are stuck in the early 2000's era of bad 3d bevels. It seems so out of place without IE6's UI adjacent to it. This is really sad. Yahoo has produced some wonderful looking stuff lately. Their Android weather app that pulls flickr pictures looks amazing. Someone blew an opportunity to actually signal that the company had changed and blew it badly
- kordless 13y agoI like it. It would look a wee better if you made the HOO a half a point bigger.
- brennenHN 13y agoI'm not sure Yahoo's brand was ready to be logo-ified. They're currently in such a radical state of change that it feels like an impossible task.
- joemaller1 13y agoAll I keep seeing is the negative space between the Y and the A. Not in a good way.
- nej 13y agoHere's the link to all the logos: http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
- 40 13y agoMy first reaction is I don't like it. It looks dated. The bevel looks like Word Art or something I would have thought was cool when I first started playing around with Photoshop. Its too complex. I was expecting them to embrace the current trend of flatness, and simplicity is a timeless aesthetic. The cutaways from the tops of the lines add to the complexity along with the many different angles, letter heights, and "O" bowl-size. It is similar to the Google logo with the bevel, rather than say Apple or Microsoft. Considering Marissa's work on the Google homepage, the familiarity with the Google logo might have made her more confident in this variation. Losing that distinctive "Y" I prefer the old logo. I can see it growing on me though. I would remove the bevel and the caps on the "YAH" letters. If it were me I probably would have tweaked the original logo and made the font look more mature and symmetrical.
- crazygringo 13y agoForgetting about the ridiculous bevels, they're using what looks to be a variation of the Optima font, which screams 70's/80's. Unlike other fonts (e.g. Helvetica), it has not aged well -- it was once a standard corporate font, now nobody touches it. Seeing it used in the logo of modern company is, quite frankly, bizarre -- especially a company trying to be "fun", because it is not a "fun" font. It was corporate/educational.
- tomflack 13y agoHow long until their regional affiliates update their design? For example: http://au.yahoo.com http://au.yahoo.com (Yahoo! 7) http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ http://www.yahoo.co.jp/ (Yahoo Japan) I really feel that while these spinoffs seemed like a good idea at the time (and in the case of Yahoo Japan were very successful spinoffs) having separate businesses with different branding will come back and hurt Yahoo! soon.
- kristiandupont 13y agoI wonder if the bevel on Google's logo inspired them to do it as well because they feel that it signals "search engine" or something.
- ssivark 13y agoFor me, the Yahoo logo was all about differently-sized characters, the fat Y with one of the arms sticking out and the big fat exclamation mark. All of those cues have vanished. The new logo seems almost devoid of flavor. The rest of their homepage has a nice UI without gradients, and this newly adopted logo seems like a extremely odd misfit, almost out of place. There's absolutely no sense of belonging.
- sirmarksalot 13y agoIt makes me want to go look at something else. It screams, "You are not interested in me! I am not going to entertain you in any way!" It reminds me of being in a mall, and looking for that one interesting store that I want to go to. I pore over a directory, scanning over a whole bunch of logos, for brands whose names I can't even remember. Eventually I find the one I want, and in that moment, if you asked me what else was on that directory I could not tell you. The new logo is on that directory somewhere, attracting no attention.
- pekru 13y agoSurprised nobody came up with a Yahಠ_ಠ! This one seemed classy enough and modern ...http://media.tumblr.com/bd2439f8e2fc7a08ce923374af8f3758/tumblr_inline_msfhtjZW4R1qz4rgp.jpg http://media.tumblr.com/bd2439f8e2fc7a08ce923374af8f3758/tum...
- smurph 13y agoThe bevel is pointless. You won't be able to notice it in on smaller versions of the logo, which it most of them.