: How come Facebook's logotype is blue? Why is Facebook's logotype blue? Was there any special reasons for blue being choosen as the color of Facebook? What's the history behind it?

@Berryessa866

Facebook has always been blue, and the guy who did the original designs wasn't even a designer, so any deep color theory or marketing meaning you put on it is probably just fluff.

According to the New Yorker, it's because Mark Zuckerberg is color blind...


www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook
Colors don’t matter much to Zuckerberg; a few years ago, he took an online test and realized that he was red-green color-blind. Blue is Facebook’s dominant color, because, as he said, “blue is the richest color for me—I can see all of blue.”


When the logo was redesigned in 2005 by Cuban Council, they continued to use the same blue as in the original design:


www.downwithdesign.com/interviews/history-facebook-logo/
Was there any particular reason for the choice of blue as the main brand colour? If so, were any other colours originally selected?

We experimented with a variety of colors, but Mark was pretty adamant about using a blue that was derived from the original blue he had used on thefacebook.com, which he had chosen based on his colour blindness, so he told us.

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