Gallery: You Recognize Mastercard. So Why Is It Changing Its Logo?
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Pentagram's Michael Bierut and Luke Hayman redesigned Mastercard's logo.
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The old logo featured the overlapping red and yellow circles.
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The new logo is a distillation of the old.
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Finding the right shade of yellow, red, and orange took hundreds of tests.
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The new logo will be on cards, but most importantly, it was designed for the digital age.
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