Barcelona logo FC and symbol, meaning, history, PNG
- Download PNG Barcelona Logo PNG The logo of the football club Barcelona comprises several heraldic symbols with a long and interesting history.
- The setting of the rhombus featured a red, yellow, and white geometric pattern: the badge was divided into four segments, where the upper left and bottom right has a Red Cross on a white background image, and the upper right and bottom left — red and yellow vertical stripes.
- C. B.” Lettering was written in a simple sans-serif.
- The upper part of the shield consisted of two parts — the left with the Red Cross on a white background, and the right one with red and yellow vertical stripes.
- The yellow football in clean and neat lines was placed in the middle of the striped segment.
- 1936 — 1941 In 1936 the club decides to return to the color palette from the beginning of the 20th century, but now the banner with “F.
- C. B.” is in black, while the lettering is white.
- F. B.”, and the black background of its banner becomes gold again.
- The colors of the badge in this version and muted and dark, and even the golden football, which has always been bright and visible, became burgundy-brown.
- Lots of yellow-gold particles and an intense red football is what makes this edition stand out from all the previously created versions.
- 1975 — 2002 A more modern typeface and a brighter color palette — this is what the redesign of 1975 brought to the Barcelona visual identity.
- The football is drawn in gold and black again, and it equalizes the golden frame of the crest and the banner with the wordmark.
- Font The sans serif typeface featured on the Barcelona logotype is called Interstate Bold.
- Colors Two of the most prominent FC Barcelona colors blue and red (featured on the bottom part of the football logo) come from the club’s first uniform.
- It’s still not known whether the colors come from the founder Joan Gamper’s FC Zurich colors or the colors of the Merchant Taylors School, where two of the club’s most known early players, Arthur and Ernest Witty, studied.
- In fact, the red cross on the white background (so-called Saint George’s Cross) is a universally recognized heraldic symbol, which has been used in a variety of contexts.
- The history of Cross of Saint George dates back to the Middle Ages.
- So, the reason why the cross appears on the FC Barcelona logo is simple – it’s one of the historic symbols of Catalonia.
- England was one of the lands that adopted this cross, too, as Saint George became the “national saint” here after the English Reformation.
- To sum up, there isn’t the flag of England on the FC Barcelona logo, it is Saint George’s Cross on both the English flag and the football club emblem.
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