YouTube has a new layout, and a brand new logo to accompany it. In truth, it’s the organization’s first new logo in 12 years.
The brand new logo does away with the traditional ‘Tube-in-a-tube’ layout. The red blob that protected the second half of YouTube has been eliminated. alternatively, the red play button that’s served as the app icon and visual identifier in a myriad of advertisements now lives to the left of the wordmark. The red color is likewise brighter now.
It’s right away familiar, however I assume I’m going to miss the quirkiness of the antique design. I feel the wordmark now seems a piece bland with out the red blob around it. still, YouTube says the change wasstimulated by our multitude of gadgets; the new logo is greater adaptable for different display sizes. From its announcement post:
The bright red cherry on top of this update sundae is a refreshed YouTube Logo and YouTube Icon. Designed for our multi-screen world, the updated Logo combines a cleaned up version of the YouTube wordmark and Icon, creating a more flexible design that works better across a variety of devices, even on the tiniest screens. Why’s it more flexible? When room is limited (say on a smartphone) you can use the brightened up Icon as an abbreviated Logo, which will be seen more easily and read more clearly.
Logo aside, we’ve seen most of the new appearance already. YouTube has been testing its new layout for months, establishing it up for absolutely everyone to try back in May. It’s straight away cleaner, extra inside the vein of material layout and its enough use of whitespace. There’s also a darkish mode for the ones folks that prefer not to watch video surrounded with the aid of eye-searing whiteness.
There a few useful capabilities wrapped up within the update too. you could eventually adjust video playback speed on mobile devices, and the app will quickly dynamically change form to match your videos element ratio – something that become first shown off in June. however my favourite bit is that the dark mode is also coming to smartphones as nicely.
The new logo is rolling out to mobile and desktop devices today, and could arrive on other apps and services “quickly.”
