📖 History of the HackerNoon Logo

The original HackerNoon logo was created by Tom Snow.

A few years back, David was working with Tom Snow, a talented freelance graphic designer and illustrator, in order to create a range of logos for AMI publications, including Hacker Noon.

As Tom and David were aware of the competition for technology publications at the time, they understand that by focusing on the "Noon" element, they would be able to create a brand identity that is distinct from the others, something that is unique.

As David set the key color for Hacker Noon to be #00ff00 green, Tom Snow's mind went straight back to, in his words, "being a kid at school and using a BBC Micro with a green monochrome display." Immediately, retro typefaces and scanning tube effects were what came to Tom's mind, which prompted Tom to design the typeface by using a 5x5 grid and the pixelated Hacker Noon clock, with both the hour hand and minute hand pointing up, indicating "noon" hour of the day.

Note: Please click on the attached zip files to download logos, do not download the logos directly! 🙏

1. Horizontal HackerNoon Logo

HackerNoon Horizontal Logos.zip40.7KB

2. Clock-Only Square Logos

HackerNoon Square Logos.zip257.5KB

✅ How To Use the HackerNoon Logo

1. On Photo Backgrounds

In most situations, the Hacker Noon Shadow Logo used on background images should be placed on either the top or bottom left corner with even paddings.
In other situations, please contact us via yes-reply@hackernoon.com to learn about where to place the Hacker Noon logo.