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Famous Logos in Pure CSS3

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So a bunch of pure CSS3 logos isn't as much fun as the I posted a few weeks ago -- but it's probably closer to real dev projects, and in some ways more complex.

Logos are pieces of design excellence, often huge investments by companies with a strong desire to create and maintain a brand image. The graphic designer has pixel-level control, of course, but a well-designed logo will not include pixel-level details. Rather, the logo should contain relatively little pure graphical data -- partly to make it easier to recognize, even backwards or upside-down; partly to maintain the logo-company association however many products the company produces; and partly, and purely practically, because the logo needs to be reproduced in multiple media (on clothing, for example). For many logos, the key word is: iconic; and iconic images are always graphically simple.

And fortunately for the web, iconic logos are comparatively easy to make. (Mixed image-text logos are pretty easy too, and as well -- but code-wise less complex.)

For example, the Apple logo: 


You can probably imagine how you'd code this in CSS3, but it would take a bit of work.

What about the Windows logo?


You guessed it: skew transform! and rotates, obviously. (But for some reason I like skews better.)

The full collection of logos is worth checking out, and of course codebrowsing (through conveniently placed 'View Code' buttons below each logo..also in CSS3).

CSS Logo (programming language)

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