You know what’s really cool? A slightly rounder lowercase “a.”
Facebook quietly began updating its logo across its various properties this week, but the tweaks are so minor that many users likely did not notice. The new logo still combines the classic Facebook blue background with white lowercase lettering. The difference: Now the font is a little thinner and the “a” got a face lift.
For those font buffs trying to keep track: the old Facebook logo used the Klavika typeface; the new logo is a “custom typeface,” according to the company.
“Now that we are established, we set out to modernize the logo to make it feel more friendly and approachable,” Josh Higgins, Facebook’s creative director, said in a statement provided toMashable. “While we explored many directions, ultimately we decided that we only needed an update, and not a full redesign.”
Sure, Facebook may access to an unprecedented amount of your personal information which it can use to target advertising to you with creepy accuracy — but hey, that new font sure does look friendlier.
The original iconic Facebook logo was designed in 2005, one year after the social network launched at Harvard and began its rapid takeover of college campuses and eventually the world.
Facebook made a similarly subtle change to its “F” icon in 2013, removing a faint blue line that had run at the bottom of the logo. When you’re Facebook, even the slightest changes have a way of capturing the Internet’s attention.
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Source: Mashable