Criptext Logo PNG
The easy-to-manage service shows the Criptext logo. The emblem conveys the email client’s reliability and security. Each message the user sends is encrypted and cannot be read without the recipient’s special key.
Criptext: Brand overview
Criptext grew out of the biography of its founder, Panamanian entrepreneur Mayer Mizrachi. He studied finance at American University in Washington and, by 2013, was working in New York on mobile apps for GeekyDrop.
In 2013, Mizrachi’s team built an app for a candidate in Panama’s presidential election. A screenshot from the candidate’s private chat leaked to the press and was taken out of context. The incident pushed the team toward secure communications, and Criptext began inside the Venture Hive accelerator in Miami.
Later in 2013, Panama’s National Authority for Government Innovation contacted Mizrachi. After more than 20 iterations, Criptext delivered a platform with an admin account for 100 government users. In April 2014, the contract was signed for $214,000. In May, Criptext launched a secure business messaging platform, and in September, added encrypted email. Within three months, it had over 1,000 paying clients, mainly government bodies in Latin America.
After Panama’s government changed in July 2014, the new administration stopped using Criptext and opened a criminal investigation. Mizrachi was arrested in Colombia in 2016 under an Interpol notice and spent six months in prison. After his release, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. Criptext later moved from a Gmail encryption plugin to an independent email platform. In 2018, from a WeWork office in New York, Mizrachi launched a public beta using Signal-based encryption, with messages stored only on users’ devices. Competitors included ProtonMail and Hushmail, while Criptext stressed open-source code and no server-side email storage.
Meaning and History
It all started with an app, presented at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York and then commissioned by a Panamanian government agency. However, something went wrong, and the authorities blocked the startup, officially rejected it, and put the company’s head in jail. At the same time, this development enabled the government to covertly collect information about the country’s inhabitants and beyond.
To stop the illegal “political” activities, Mayer Mizrachi continued adapting Criptext from prison. Therefore, over time, the Gmail extension plugin was transformed into an independent email service focused on information protection, following violations of users’ privacy. The head of the company continuously coordinated the work from a Colombian prison, where he was imprisoned on trumped-up political charges.
What is Criptext?
Criptext is an email service that provides total email security and encryption. It is also the name of the IT company that first offered this program. Its appearance time is 2014. The developers are five software engineers from Panama and Ecuador, led by Mayer Mizrachi. The headquarters is in New York City.
First, a group of Panamanian developers introduced a utility for the iPhone that enabled quick downloads of short, soundless videos and disappearing text messages. The app was called HASH and was aimed primarily at teenagers. However, Mizrachi wanted its platform to have broader functionality and reach out to members of the business community. The team intended to involve lawyers, politicians, and other professionals who need to send letters without a trace.
The company implemented all of this in its eponymous product. The service allows tracing the discovery of sent emails (who, where, and when), end-to-end encryption, and setting a self-destruction timer for emails and their withdrawal, even if they have already reached the addressee. All this time, the young project has used the same identity: it has never changed since its launch.
The Criptext logo is a harmonious combination of text and graphics, which visually interact with each other. Although the icon occupies only one-fifth of the space, it fulfills a very important function: it reflects the concept of the email service. That’s why it shows a blue dialog bubble with a miniature white padlock. It indicates strong user protection and suggests the presence of internal message encryption.
The text to the left of the icon is black and displays the service name. The word is in lower-case font, except for the first letter. The characters are bold, rounded at the ends, and resemble the typewriter typeface of ancient typewriters, old-fashioned as if borrowed from the late 19th century.
Font and Colors
For the wordmark in the Criptext logo, the designers chose the Blair typeface. It’s a calm, deep antiqua with crisp tracing, rounded shapes, and elongated serifs. The color palette is sparse, consisting of blue, white, black, and anthracite.