Developer tools rebrands
39 developer tools logo changes logged from 2015 to 2026. Each has the old and new logo side by side, with the studio, typefaces and sources.
- 39
- Rebrands
- 12
- Years
- 7
- in 2024, the busiest year
- 23
- Studios credited
Rebrands per year
Featured · 7 with both logos
All rebrands · 39
| What changed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Kong | Sep 2026 | Kong in-house | Gorilla logo modernised, electric lime as primary colour, new young-gorilla mascot "Karl" |
| Stack Overflow | Jul 2026 | Koto | Rebrand for the AI era with off-kilter logo and notched Stack Sans |
| OpenCoreOS | May 2026 | Further | New logo and identity |
| TestMu AI | Jan 2026 | Studio not recorded | Jan 12 2026: cloud testing platform LambdaTest renamed TestMu AI |
| Vite | Jan 2026 | Studio not recorded | VoidZero unified identity: the purple-to-yellow lightning triangle was replaced by a purple gradient bolt framed by the shared bracket device. |
| Qovery | Oct 2025 | Studio not recorded | Oct 2025 rebrand (Alasta): stacked-cube mark -> Q built from a 3D cube + new wordmark |
| Portainer | Jul 2025 | Studio not recorded | Jul 2025: the blue crane-and-containers icon with a lowercase 'portainer.io' replaced by a heavy all-caps 'PORTAINER.iO' wordmark. |
| Resend | Jul 2025 | Studio not recorded | New logo and identity. |
| Deno | Oct 2024 | Studio not recorded | Oct 2024 (Deno 2.0): dinosaur in rain-streaked circle -> simplified dinosaur head in plain circle |
| Oracle VirtualBox | Sep 2024 | Studio not recorded | Sep 2024 VirtualBox 7.1: glossy 3D cube icon -> flat teal/orange V-box mark |
| Retool | Sep 2024 | Retool in-house | Evolved "R" symbol made from connected building blocks, with illustration-led system |
| WP Engine | Jun 2024 | Studio not recorded | Jun 2024 brand refresh: the teal grid icon is kept but redrawn, and the heavy black 'WP engine' wordmark becomes a lighter navy wordmark with a teal-and-navy palette. |
| Firebase | May 2024 | R/GA with Google | Flame logo redrawn as overlapping translucent flame shapes; refreshed brand system |
| Kubuntu | Apr 2024 | Studio not recorded | Apr 2024 (24.04 LTS, design contest winner by Fabio Maricato): black kubuntu + blue gear ring -> blue K-cog symbol + navy kubuntu |
| Redis | Apr 2024 | Studio not recorded | New logo. |
| Angular | Nov 2023 | Google Design | Red shield replaced by a gradient shield-"A" symbol, launched with angular.dev and v17 |
| Timescale | Jun 2023 | Timescale in-house | New logo. |
| Netlify | Mar 2023 | Netlify in-house | Teal gem logo replaced by the "Netlify Spark", inspired by optical dispersion |
| Sauce Labs | Feb 2023 | How&How | New logo and identity |
| Next.js | Sep 2022 | Basement Studio | New logo. |
| New Relic | May 2022 | New Relic in-house | New brand debuted at FutureStack 2022: new logo, colours, look and feel, voice and tone, tagline ("Data for Engineers") and website |
| GitLab | Apr 2022 | GitLab in-house | Tanuki iterated and set at the centre of the DevOps infinity loop; refreshed look |
| MDN Web Docs | Apr 2022 | Luc Doucedame | New logo. |
| Unity | Oct 2021 | Unity in-house | Flat cube mark redrawn as a fully 3D cube with three directional arrows; product logos unified |
| Glide | Sep 2021 | Glide in-house | New symbol of two opposing curved shapes, refined black wordmark, new palette, typography, iconography and website |
| Kotlin | Jul 2021 | Studio not recorded | Jul 2021 Kotlin identity: striped flag -> gradient flag + JetBrains Sans wordmark |
| Webex | Jun 2021 | Studio not recorded | 8 Jun 2021: the blue 'Cisco Webex' wordmark replaced by 'Webex by Cisco', with a gradient 'W' symbol shaped as a rotating double helix (two hands coming together) and a black 'webex' wordmark. |
| Unreal Engine | May 2021 | Studio not recorded | New logo. |
| Fedora | Mar 2021 | Fedora Design Team (in-house) | Mar 2021 (shipped with Fedora 34, Apr 2021): dark-blue wordmark with infinity-f bubble top right replaced by light-blue f mark on the left and new wordmark (Máirín Duffy) |
| Vercel | Apr 2020 | In-house | ZEIT renamed Vercel; new logotype with the simplified signature triangle |
| PagerDuty | Sep 2019 | Studio not recorded | New logo. |
| Instabug | Aug 2019 | Instabug in-house | New logo. |
| Red Hat | May 2019 | Red Hat in-house | New logo. |
| Jetpack | Feb 2018 | Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv | New logo. |
| Mapbox | Apr 2017 | Will Dove | New logo. |
| Visual Studio | Mar 2017 | Studio not recorded | 2017 refresh: solid dark-purple infinity badge -> lighter outlined infinity + Visual Studio wordmark |
| DigitalOcean | Oct 2016 | DigitalOcean in-house | New logo. |
| Cloudflare | Sep 2016 | Studio not recorded | New logo. |
| Jetbrains | Dec 2015 | Studio not recorded | New Logo(s). |