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title: "A new GitLab Logo"
date: 2015-05-18
author: Job van der Voort
author_twitter: Jobvo
categories: company
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We hear you:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gitlab seems like a cool service, but my god that logo is scary</p>&mdash; Matt Bachmann (@MattBachmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattBachmann/status/575671070268768256">March 11, 2015</a></blockquote>
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We have a scary, angry looking raccoon dog logo.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">this creepy human/racoon hybrid that is the <a href="https://twitter.com/gitlab">@gitlab</a> logo is starting to really freak me out <a href="http://t.co/HJarlbRNOo">pic.twitter.com/HJarlbRNOo</a></p>&mdash; hatewell (@hatwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/hatwell/status/556028082709348352">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote>
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We figured we could use a better representation of GitLab.

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**Update May 20th:**

After careful consideration we have decided that this is our new logo:

![new GitLab Logo option A](/images/new_logo/A.jpg)

We like the way it looks in GitLab:

![The new logo in GitLab](/images/new_logo/l2.png)
![The new logo in GitLab, different color scheme](/images/new_logo/l3.png)

And compared to the old logo:

![New vs. old GitLab logo](/images/new_logo/l1.png)


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The options we didn't pick:

![new GitLab Logo option B](/images/new_logo/B.jpg)
![new GitLab Logo option C](/images/new_logo/C.jpg)
![new GitLab Logo option D](/images/new_logo/D.jpg)

If you have a better suggestion than one of the ones above, a certain preference
or opinion, we'd love to hear it.

The final choice of our new logo rests with [Dmitriy](https://twitter.com/dzaporozhets).