This Is The Official New Logo of HTML5

Just like that little orange logo for RSS, there’s a new logo that’s just been unveiled that you’re going to be seeing a lot more of. It’s for HTML5 which has a new keystone-shaped logo meant to represent the “spirit and substance of the open web platform and the community surrounding it.”

What Is HTML5?

HTML5 is simply the next version of HTML, or Hyper Text Markup Language, which forms the backbone of almost every site on the Internet. HTML4, the last major iteration of the language, debuted in 1997 and has been subsequently poked and prodded so that it can handle the demands of the modern Web. [source]

Who Designed The Logo?

The logo was designed by design agency Ocupop, whose logo designer Michael Nieling said in a statement, “The term HTML5 has taken on a life of its own; there has been significant confusion and debate both within the developer community and in the public at large as to what exactly HTML5 is when the term is used outside of simply referring to the spec itself… The standard needs a standard. That is, HTML5 needs a consistent, standardized visual vocabulary to serve as a framework for conversations, presentations, and explanations.”

If you’re really into HTML5, stickers, or t-shirts…you’re in luck! Ocupop has a page dedicated to letting you use the logo to design many snazzy shirts (about $22.50). You can even get free stickers by sending them a self-addressed stamped envelope.

Neiling goes on to say, “Paul Rand was quoted at some point saying that great logos have ‘the pleasure of recognition and the promise of meaning.’ At first glance, people immediately see the number five, the badge, the power, and the excitement of this logo and the movement as a whole — they get that ‘pleasure of recognition,’ they get it immediately. Then the shape, the shading and very real latent meanings… also come through.

“That promise of meaning, that potential that the open web platform and the ‘new’ HTML5-driven web offers, that’s there too.”