YouTube unveils new logo and features for screens of all sizes
The platform’s redesign aims to highlight content and encourage viewing. Its product chief said, ‘We’re here to give people a voice and show them the world—no matter what device they use.’
The platform recently revealed a new logo that’s designed to fit seamlessly across all electronic devices and screens.
On Tuesday, The Verge reported:
For the last 12 years, YouTube’s logo has been a pair of anachronisms wrapped inside each other. “We have the word tube in a tube,” says Christopher Bettig, the head of YouTube’s art department. “This is weird. No one knows what this is.” Tube is slang for a television set, which used to be powered by vacuum tubes. But neither tubes nor TVs are central to the world’s biggest video service, which now reaches over 1.5 billion people each month, streaming to almost any screen with an internet connection.
And so today the brand is getting its biggest aesthetic makeover ever. The YouTube logo is being refreshed, shifting the emphasis away from the word “Tube” and onto the familiar play button which has already become an iconic shorthand for the company. The service is also getting a new typeface, color scheme, and a bunch of major changes to the look, feel, and functionality of its desktop and mobile app.
YouTube showed its progression of branding changes over the years in a GIF:
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