After Effects logo and symbol, meaning, history, PNG
- The logo featured a square badge in gray, red, and white, with two black letters “AE” in the uppercase of a simple medium weight sans-serif typeface.
- The main color of the badge was light gray, with a small red triangle in the upper-right part of the square, a double white circle, and a white cross in the middle.
- 1995 – 1999 The redesign of 1995 introduced a brighter version of the previous logo, with the light gray replaced by its darker shade, and the white circle — by the one in two shades of blue.
- 1999 The logo used by the After Effects in 1999 was executed in a monochrome color palette, with the gray color as the main one.
- The “4.0” version number was set in the bottom right corner of the badge, pointing to the version of the software.
- 1999 – 2001 A few months later, the 4.1 version of After Effects was released, hence the logo had to be redesigned again.
- 2001 – 2003 In 2001 the After Effects logo was redesigned again.
- The image was enclosed into a gradient blue square frame and had a corporate gray Adobe logo in the bottom left corner of the badge.
- 2003 – 2006 The redesign of 2003 switched the color palette of the After Effects visual identity to orange and yellow and kept the blue for the framing.
- Though this new badge only stayed with the software for a few months, it got a huge influence on all the following emblems of the product.
- The new three-dimensional badge was executed in gradient white and gray for the background (a square with rounded angles) and transparent gradient purple for the stylized graphical part.
- 2007 – 2008 In 2007 the After Effects logo gets a new life — the color palette remained the same, light gray and light purple shades, but they were now used in reverse.
- The square got colored purple, while the “Ae” lettering in a bold sans-serif typeface, placed in the middle of the badge, was white with a slight gray gradient.
- This was the first version of the After Effects visual identity, where the “E” was set in the lowercase.
- 2013 – 2015 The redesign of 2013 kept the composition and the color palette from 2012, but cleaned and refined the lines of all the elements, making the letters taller and finer, and the square framing — thinner.
- 2015 – 2020 In 2015 the After Effects logo was redesigned again, and this time it was mostly about the color palette of the square badge.
- The violet shade of the lettering and the framing got some pink shade and now the fluorescent purple pink was truly eye-catching.
- 2020 – now The corporate visual identity concept of Adobe is the core of the After Effects logo.
- The square emblem is framed in a light purple and featured a dark violet background.
- The lettering “Ae”, which stands both for “After Effects” and “Adobe” uses the same color as the frame.
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