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Color meanings and symbolism in the logos of Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox
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SpongebobSquaredance
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ITS LANGSTRUMF GODDAMMIT
Fuz
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Orange and blue are on the opposite sides of the spectre. Cold/warm. They just look very good together because of that.
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Zeroing
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That is so ugly. Nothing related to food or the "Mexican" influence. Why is the bell pink?I guess head office had a choice between diarrhea brown or this. They chose wisely.
StreetsofBeige
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According to this site, they say this.
Taco Bell Logo | Design, History and Evolution
The current version of the Taco Bell logo was introduced in 1994 and consisted of a modernized, slanted and more playful version of the chain's classic logo.
www.famouslogos.net
Colors of Taco Bell Logo
The Taco Bell logo features bright shades of blue, pink and yellow to appeal to its young customers. While the blue color stands for approachability, excellence and grace, the pink depicts youthfulness and affection. The yellow color, on the other hand, symbolizes happiness, optimism and joy.
JWhiskey
Neo Member
It's basic color theory. They are complimentary colors and look good together.
Orange/Blue Contrast - TV Tropes
We'll start off with a little warning: after you finish reading this article, this color combination will be everywhere you look. It will follow you around and constantly haunt you. Thankfully for most people, this effect fades after a few days.
tvtropes.org
WitchHunter
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Oh, look palmistry aka palm reading. Your future is certain my pedigree chum.You see colors in everything around you, every moment of the day - but do you ever stop to think about the impact each of those colors is having on you?
Color meanings stem from psychological effects, biological conditioning and cultural developments. Some color meanings are deeply rooted in our brains while others change over time and are different from culture to culture
Take a moment to think of Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox - the colors they use and their logos, what feelings and messages do those brands convey to you?
Edit: I've added more colors.
It would be a nice way to see how a brand can or not have different meanings, to different people.
Also to those who are color blind, my apologies but maybe it is not all about color but an accumulation of personal experiences. The shapes used in the logos does also convey messages.
I will start:
Nintendo - Passionate, Conservative
Playstation - Creativity, Stability
Xbox - Power, Wealth, Connectivity
Soodanim
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I thought green was the universal colour of noises
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Kokoloko85
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PS2’s colour was better
Zeroing
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I can’t believe people are comparing this to some weird occult thing. Color does have an effect on people! There’s tons of medical articles about it also! Even artists use color in art to convey messages/feelings.
Video games people! Visual also! The same way darker tone colors/colder are used in games of horror genre and not bright colorful colors… it’s to convey an atmospheric cold and mysterious mood!
Elysion
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Also, take note of the hair colors of anime characters, which can often tell you what kind of personality they have. Red/orange/yellow hair for example is often used for abrasive, brash, extroverted characters, while black/blue/purple hair is reserved for characters that are colder, more calculating, and/or introverted.
The Fartist
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What about Stadia?
Zeroing
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What about Stadia?
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
Honestly XBOX sounds like engineer product nickname, always amazed me they just went with it instead of paying some consulting company millions to make up one.
remember_spinal
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i was always told mcdonalds used red and yellow because it made people anxious to not stay in their restaurants too long
nush
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Mine was silver.
Zeroing
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Wow when color theory is just a theory and doesn’t work when applied!According to this site, they say this.
Taco Bell Logo | Design, History and Evolution
The current version of the Taco Bell logo was introduced in 1994 and consisted of a modernized, slanted and more playful version of the chain's classic logo.
Colors of Taco Bell Logo
The Taco Bell logo features bright shades of blue, pink and yellow to appeal to its young customers. While the blue color stands for approachability, excellence and grace, the pink depicts youthfulness and affection. The yellow color, on the other hand, symbolizes happiness, optimism and joy.
Jovial and mysterious. Like the shape of the console, seems very serious yet it has a handle. The color just makes it obvious it’s a fun and mysterious box! One can say with good surprises!
Zeroing
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The old interior with red decorations overhyped people senses and and lines to order the menus would make people anxious with plus so many menu choices they will hurry and buy it. Then that additive food would make them devour it even faster!
Zeroing
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Thanks for that information Apparently I’m not the only one on neogaf who over shares too much!
WitchHunter
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lol, sure, eat the bs. Maybe a handful of people know how these work at the basic level, yet a lot of people give these fancy words to illustrations without any merit or basis.
Complementary colours looking good. Sometimes there isn't more to it.
Bo_Hazem
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Now I honestly understand why my shit makes me feel warmth, wholesomeness.
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SpongebobSquaredance
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RoadHazard
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I think PlayStation used to use green as well before MS forced them to pick a different color.
Those "banners" were black on regular games, those green ones are only the Greatest Hits shit (they later changed this to red), which are always made to look ugly and radiate cheapness (to lure bargain hunters).
So yeah, MS chose well!
Elysion
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In Europe they did the opposite. ‚Greatest Hits‘ editions over here had the ‚Platinum‘ label, with silver Playstation banners instead of the regular black ones. It looked super classy, and made it almost look as if it was some special edition or something.
Unfortunately, in later generations they didn’t stick with this minimalist design for their ‚Platinum‘ versions, and instead adopted more attention grabbing color schemes, like yellow on PS3. And I think for PS4 they abandoned the Platinum label entirely, and instead adopted some generic ‚greatest hits‘ label, similar to what the US and other markets have.
ParaSeoul
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They need to bring this backIn Europe they did the opposite. ‚Greatest Hits‘ editions over here had the ‚Platinum‘ label, with silver Playstation banners instead of the regular black ones. It looked super classy, and made it almost look as if it was some special edition or something.
Unfortunately, in later generations they didn’t stick with this minimalist design for their ‚Platinum‘ versions, and instead adopted more attention grabbing color schemes, like yellow on PS3. And I think for PS4 they abandoned the Platinum label entirely, and instead adopted some generic ‚greatest hits‘ label, similar to what the US and other markets have.
ParaSeoul
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I think PlayStation used to use green as well before MS forced them to pick a different color.
RoadHazard
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In Europe they did the opposite. ‚Greatest Hits‘ editions over here had the ‚Platinum‘ label, with silver Playstation banners instead of the regular black ones. It looked super classy, and made it almost look as if it was some special edition or something.
Unfortunately, in later generations they didn’t stick with this minimalist design for their ‚Platinum‘ versions, and instead adopted more attention grabbing color schemes, like yellow on PS3. And I think for PS4 they abandoned the Platinum label entirely, and instead adopted some generic ‚greatest hits‘ label, similar to what the US and other markets have.
Ah right. I am European, but didn't remember that until now heh. Didn't have a PlayStation back in the day, I was a Nintendo kid (and some Sega).
But yeah, we've always (edit: usually) had better cover art etc than America in general.
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_Ex_
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No you didn't.
But if it makes you feel all better in your smug place of smuggedness, feel free to continue deluding yourself in perpetuity.
RoadHazard
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Uh yes. Europe often got the original Japanese cover art (or something very similar to it) while America often got a much worse, action-oriented cover. RE4 and ICO are classic examples, but far from the only ones. It wasn't ALWAYS like that of course, but that's how it often went. Now, you are not required to like the JP/EU ICO cover over the NA one, but that's definitely the general consensus.
nominedomine
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So the tradition of fucking up Greatest Hits covers was there from the start. Do they actually do it on purpose? I hate them.
bushwookie
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Fascinating stuff. I'm guessing this almost entirely subjective though, and that colors don't really have any particular meaning.You see colors in everything around you, every moment of the day - but do you ever stop to think about the impact each of those colors is having on you?
Color meanings stem from psychological effects, biological conditioning and cultural developments. Some color meanings are deeply rooted in our brains while others change over time and are different from culture to culture
Take a moment to think of Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox - the colors they use and their logos, what feelings and messages do those brands convey to you?
Edit: I've added more colors.
It would be a nice way to see how a brand can or not have different meanings, to different people.
Also to those who are color blind, my apologies but maybe it is not all about color but an accumulation of personal experiences. The shapes used in the logos does also convey messages.
I will start:
Nintendo - Passionate, Conservative
Playstation - Creativity, Stability
Xbox - Power, Wealth, Connectivity
I see that this is the case with you as well, as your opinions on the 3 console brands have almost nothing to do with their colors.
RoadHazard
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I think they do, yes. They intentionally make them look cheap to make less discerning customers think "oooh, that looks cheap". They don't care that gaming enthusiasts hate them, we're expected to buy the original releases.
Zeroing
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I did talk that it could be subjective hence I asked for opinions and that the shape of the logos and our experiences mold what we perceive from that brand
Zeroing
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So you confess, you look at it…
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ParaSeoul
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Kdad
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Its the founder's daughter's nickname.
Dave's Legacy - Founding Wendy's | Wendy's
Wendy Thomas - Wikipedia
Logo before most recent redesign
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Zeroing
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It’s all cultural as well! You can see tends in cover art for Europe, they are more artistic. I remember that insomniac PS3 game having an illustration as cover art and selling really bad in North America!
Even movies do it, posters for Europe tend to me more abstract, minimal or different.
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