Mastercard just changed its logo for the first time in 20 years
 

Mastercard just changed its logo for the first time in 20 years
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Mastercard's familiar orange and red circles just got a facelift.

The credit card company rolled out a minimalist new logo on Thursday — its first adjustment in two decades.

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Instead of interlocking in the middle as they previously did, the two circles **w blend into one a**ther in a design that looks exactly like a Venn diagram.

In addition to the simplified icon, the white drop-shadowed typeface that used to splay out across it has been lowercased and dropped below.

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The change, which was orchestrated by branding agency Pentagram, fits with what seems to be the vogue in corporate logo design right **w — simple one-dimensional shapes and serif-free basic fonts that translate better in digital formatsVerizon, Ihop and Google have all moved in the same direction in the past year. Read more...


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