The YouTube logo history and evolution provides a lesson in restrained design.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube logo variations. YouTube logo changes for particular events seem to be becoming more regular treats on the platform.

For the last 12 years, YouTube’s logo has been a pair of anachronisms wrapped inside each other. “We have the word tube in a tube,” says Christopher Bettig, the head of YouTube’s art department. “This ...