{"id":61,"date":"2006-09-28T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T11:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2006\/09\/28\/to_set_the_record_straightyahoo_logo\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T11:48:13","slug":"to_set_the_record_straightyahoo_logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/to_set_the_record_straightyahoo_logo.html","title":{"rendered":"To Set the Record Straight&#8230;Yahoo! Logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EVERYBODY tells people I designed the Yahoo! logo.  Unfortunately, that is only partially true.  Here are the truths:<br \/>\n1. I actually drew\/designed the Jumping Y Guy logo which is the original corporate logo.<br \/>\n2. The Jumping Y Guy had other type when we launched prior to today&#8217;s logo type.<br \/>\n3. Yahoo! hired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organic.com\">Organic<\/a> to do a redesign of Yahoo! sites as well as the logo.<br \/>\n4. Kevin Farnham (founder of <a href=\"\">Method Design<\/a>) was the designer at Organic who executed the type explorations and design of the Yahoo! logo type.  Geoff Katz creative directed it from Organic&#8217;s side.<br \/>\n5. I art directed it from Yahoo!&#8217;s side.<br \/>\n6. After the logo type was done, I replaced the logotype under the Jumping Y Guy with the new logo type for unity. The logo type launched across all Yahoo! sites on Jan 1, 1996.<br \/>\n7. Trivia: the original logo came from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t26.com\/fonts\/display.php?f_id=429&#038;dw=50\">T-26 font, Able<\/a>. (Please don&#8217;t buy this font and create Yahoo-like text &#8211; you&#8217;ll fail miserably and also be disrespectful of thee brand).<br \/>\nThere you have it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVERYBODY tells people I designed the Yahoo! logo. Unfortunately, that is only partially true. Here are the truths: 1. I actually drew\/designed the Jumping Y Guy logo which is the original corporate logo. 2. The Jumping Y Guy had other type when we launched prior to today&#8217;s logo type. 3. Yahoo! hired Organic to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}