Since President Obama's campaign started we have had more than a few people compare our LightCMS logo to the Obama logo. We have always taken the comparisons as a compliment since the Obama
campaign was one of the most successful marketing campaigns ever. I thought we'd take a closer look at the logos here on the blog. They are posted side-by-side below for you to compare.
Of course, a few have suggested that we somehow ripped off Obama's logo for LightCMS. But that's just not possible. The LightCMS logo was created in early 2006, well before the Obama campaign launched on February 10, 2007. You can see the earliest LightCMS site, captured by the Wayback Machine on August 21st, 2006 at the following link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060821162320/http://www.lightcms.com.
I'll admit, I'm mostly just posting this on the blog so that I can just send this link to people whenever they ask me about it, instead of having to type this information out over and over. But it is also fun to take a look at these logos side by side. What do you think?
Posted on
Wed, February 11, 2009
by Chad Jaggers
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