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The user, his data, and sites using the company’s software are as inaccessible to intruders as clouds in the sky. The Cloudflare logo invites you to rely on professionals.
Meaning and History
The Cloudflare service began with three programmers working together on Project Honey Pot. In 2009, Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and Michelle Zatlyn worked on an open-source program to prevent web-based illegal activity and monitor Internet fraud. They presented the latest version in 2010 at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Venture capitalists funded the project.
The service gained notoriety in 2011 when it interacted with the website of the so-called “black hat” hacker group, LulzSec. In 2019, the American IT company applied to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange and went public. Over the years, it has mitigated some of the biggest DDoS attacks, with packet transmission rates ranging from 300 to 500 gigabits per second. Its customers range from anonymous users to world-famous media outlets. But the recent cyberattack was three times faster than any previously recorded. It occurred in the summer of 2021 and was also foiled.
Cloudflare also provides a DNS service, which (as of 2020) has already been used by over 100,000 customers. The specialized service is well recognized for its identity, which includes two versions of the same logo. It speaks directly to the service’s scope and reflects its core concept: a global network for secure, confidential, fast, and reliable Internet access.
What is Cloudflare?
Cloudflare is an Internet company that protects Web resources from DDoS attacks, aggregates and delivers content to users, and provides secure site access. It was created by a team of three programmers: Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and Michelle Zatlyn. The service was launched in 2009. Its headquarters are in San Francisco.
2009 – 2016
The company chose a thematic logo with a cloud and a rising sun. The celestial sun hides behind it, emitting three long and narrow rays. At the same time, the color makes it look like a storm cloud, which specialists have to remove so that the bright sun reappears in the sky. The cloud consists of four connected arches of different sizes.
Beneath the semi-circular orange frames are sickle-shaped white highlights that resemble an upside-down moon. Next, the orange space returns, flowing into a rich brown gradient. On the right side of the largest arc is a sun with three long and eight short rays. It has a glowing dot at the center that transitions to an ultra-white glow. glow
Next to the cloud is the global network’s name. It is in uppercase letters, flat, vertical, and smooth. Although they are all capital letters, the “C” and “F” are larger than the others because they represent the beginnings of the words “Cloud” and “Flare,” from which the service name is made. The “L” and “A” connect, while the other characters stand apart.
2016 – today
To modernize the logo, the designers used two-dimensional techniques to flatten it, since the play of light and shadow had previously given the cloud a sense of volume. They also removed the eight upper rays of the sun, forming narrow triangles, and added a lower one, shifting the luminary to the right third of the image. As a result, each ray points to a different part of the world: north, east, south, and west.
This version also clearly distinguishes the color zones: the right side of the cloud is painted yellow, while the left side is painted orange. But the shades used are pastel rather than bright. The lettering is now in the same uppercase font. The letters are large and bold, with a wide space between characters.
Font and Colors
Cloudflare’s visual identity has evolved from complex to simpler as minimalism has become a trend. But the adjustments aren’t driven by a fashion trend in logo design; they’re practical. The simplified logo is easier to display on different digital media. After being reworked, it lost its glare, gradient, and shadows.
Both logos use the grotesque. In the earlier version, it is rounded and flowing, whereas in the later version, it is smooth and angular. Another difference between the letters in both versions is the width of the feet: they are now much thicker than before. But the signature palette remains unchanged: a combination of several shades of orange. The lettering is done in black.