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Illustrator Logo

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  • Download PNG Adobe illustrator Logo PNG Illustrator is a graphics editor created by Adobe in 1985.
  • 1987 The original emblem for the software was created in 1987 and featured a very simple and laconic badge, composed of a white square with a cursive capitalized “A” on it, written in black with a pixel pattern.
  • 1990 With the software version 3.0, the logo was refined and its color palette gained new shades.
  • Now it was a more italicized and bold black “A”, enclosed in a fuchsia circle, composed of numerous solid dots, a bold purple rectangle with the white “3” in the bottom right corner, and a purple triangle, placed in the upper left corner, to balance the image.
  • 1992 The lines of the icon became stronger in 1992.
  • The purple was switched to deep blue, and the bold white “4” replaced the “3”, celebrating the new version of the software.
  • The dots in the sickle around the letter “A” turned into square pixels and got their gray shadows.
  • 1993 The icon was redesigned again in 1993.
  • 1997 The logo from 1997 introduced a portrait of the Venus from the famous Botticelli painting, as the main symbol of the software.
  • The portrait was executed in monochrome and enclosed in a double yellow and black square frame.
  • The Adobe logotype in light gray was placed in the bottom left corner of the emblem.
  • 2003 The portrait was replaced by a flower in 2003.
  • The new Illustrator emblem featured a plain white square with a fuchsia three-dimensional flower placed on its upper-right part.
  • 2007 The redesign of 2007 introduced a laconic and contemporary version of the Illustrator logo, composed of a gradient orange square with a white sand-serif “Ai” lettering on it.
  • 2008 The white lettering was replaced by black in 28.
  • 2012 The flat icon was back in 2012.
  • 2013 The frame became thinner as well as the lines of the letters in 2013.
  • The color palette got darker and now it was composed of an intense orange and black, with a slight gradient on the upper left part of the square.
  • The black and orange palette of the framed square with a simple yet elegant inscription looked bright and powerful showing the professionalism and expertise of the software.
  • 2020 The lines of the “Ai” lettering became bolder in 2020.

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