Fuchsia OS is the latest Google project to get a logo redesign. The company hasn’t officially announced a new logo for its universal operating system. However, a recent trademark filing has revealed its plans.
Google filed for a trademark for a new logo with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) late last month. As you can see in the attached image below, it is kind of a slanted figure eight with open ends, a design that follows the spirit of the current Fuchsia OS logo. One can also find an illustration of a Mobius strip in the design.
However, according to the official documentation, the logo is a stylized design of the lowercase letter “f”. It is “intended to cover the categories of
Though there’s no explicit mention of the “Fuchsia OS” name in the documentation, these details give away more than just a hint. Separately, Google has also confirmed to 9to5Google that this so-called “stylized f” is indeed the new logo for the Fuchsia OS project.
The company hasn’t started using the new logo anywhere though, neither in the source code nor any public websites. Perhaps because it hasn’t received the approval yet. According to the listing on USPTO’s website (via), the trademark application is still awaiting examination and it may take more than three months for approval.
Fuchsia OS is getting its first logo redesign
Google has a long history of frequently changing the faces of its major projects with newer logos or names. Over the past few years, we have seen the company rebrand its smartwatch operating system from Android Wear to Wear OS, G Suite productivity tools to Google Workspace, and many more. Some other products like Chrome and Android, meanwhile, got logo redesigns.
The Fuchsia OS project, on the other hand, has had the same “pink-colored” logo since it came into the limelight back in August 2016. In fact, this project didn’t get much attention from Google until very recently. Development of this open-source operating system, which is based on the Zircon kernel (formerly Magenta), progressed awfully slowly for years. There were also speculations that the project may be dead.
However, Google recently released Fuchsia OS publicly to its first-generation Google Nest Hub, which originally ran Linux-based Cast OS. Soon after, the project is getting its first makeover as well, with a redesigned logo. We will be keeping an eye on when the new Fuchsia OS logo becomes official.