YouTube gets a new logo for the first time in 12 years

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by Sindy Cator on August 29, 2017 at 4:14 pm

YouTube has a new design, and a new logo to accompany it. In fact, it’s the company’s first new logo in 12 years. The new logo does away with the classic ‘Tube-in-a-tube’ design. The red blob super imposed on ‘Tube’ portion of YouTube has been removed. Instead, the red Play button that’s served as the app icon and visual identifier in a myriad of ads now lives to the left of the wordmark. The red color is also brighter now. It’s immediately familiar, but I think I’m going to miss the quirkiness of the old design. Still, YouTube says the…