This article was published on November 8, 2013

Google turns purple: This is the result of switching over colors of competing brand logos


Google turns purple: This is the result of switching over colors of competing brand logos Image by: Justin Sullivan

This designer, Paula Rupolo, decided to swap the colors of logos that famous competing brands use, and here’s the result. Hint: it’s pretty jarring.

It seems like we’ve already internalized logos along with their colors — and switching out the colors makes these immediately-recognizable logos look a lot less familiar.

A purple Google logo, anyone?

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➤ What happens when you swap the colors of famous logos? [Sploid Gizmodo]

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