Obviously, we already learned that the Ford emblem changes were quite extensive and numerous for the first 25 years of the company. However, slight changes continued even after the chubby Blue Oval first appeared in The chubby one from was replaced only in when Ford vehicles received a rather strange Ford emblem — not exactly an oval.
Apart from the sheer shape of the logo, even the Ford lettering evolved. This logo was used on all Ford cars up to the end of It was then that we got the first glimpses of what would become the signature Ford script to this day. Designer and longtime friend of Henry Ford Childe Harold Wills designed the logo in using the lettering from a stencil set his father used for making business cards.
Was it because of UK Ford? A picture is worth 1, words! As I believe this saying to the letter, you will have a chance to see every known Ford emblem which appeared over the years here.
What is more, I found out that the Ford emblem could have been dramatically different compared to what we know today. The proposed solution was too radical for Henry Ford II, so the more conventional emblem prevailed. I have the picture of what could have been accepted as the new emblem back then.
The shape was adjusted to make it a longer logo, the lettering was slightly modernized once or twice, and they added a gradient to the blue color in the last two iterations of it. But it has ultimately kept its traditional design since the early s.
The last time they changed the logo was in That year, they changed the blue hue slightly and added a different corresponding gradient as well as 3D shading to the lettering, making it sleeker than it was before.
This year, Ford will celebrate its th birthday as a company. Discover what lies inside the Ford logo! Here are the rest of the Ford emblems you may have seen over the years—including one that was never released:. Despite looking consistent throughout the years, one drastically different Ford logo was proposed in but never used: a sleek, modernized version of the Ford text graphic.
Despite wanting to modernize the logo, Henry Ford II—who hired Rand—decided this design was too radical of a change and rejected it. Enjoy learning about the Ford logo? Aaron is unashamed to be a native Clevelander and the proud driver of a Hyundai Veloster Turbo which recently replaced his Saturn SC
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