You people need to check out this guys work in “updating” the Nasa logo. Typodermic Fonts Inc. with over 3000 fonts & 612 families is located in Nagoya, Japan—founded in 2001 by Raymond Larabie in Canada. Maybe because I remember MCM design when it was just design. “Worm” on the other hand looks like something from 2025. The “worm” represents nothing to someone who does not know what the letters stand for, but I suppose that is typical for many logos. After a NASA Lewis Research Center illustrator’s design was chosen for the new agency’s official seal, the head of Lewis’ Research Reports Division, James Modarelli, was asked by the executive secretary of NACA to design a logo that could be used for less formal purposes. Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn were hired to replace the complex meatball with a stripped-down, modernist interpretation where even the cross stroke of the A’s were removed. Obvious I feel. - Top Right quadrant: A representative illustration of the technology, at the initial Suggesting a break away from its old-school fly boy roots, it pointed towards a greater scientific path to the future. In the "meatball" design, the sphere represents a planet, the stars represent space, the red chevron is a wing representing aeronautics (the latest design in hypersonic wings at the time the logo was developed), and then there is an orbiting spacecraft going around the wing. That would be the meatball. Perhaps this more than anything is a testament to the skill and dedication of every employee at NASA, logo notwithstanding. Going back to the old insignia was the first step in the right direction for NASA, it is a message of “We need to get off our butts and dare to do the impossible again.”. Public Domain (not a license). 17 years later, despite its winning the prestigious “Award of Design Excellence” by The Presidential Design Awards, NASA scrapped the Danne and Blackburn design and re-instated the “meatball.”. Those loyal to the old design were offended, and a rivalry between the “meatball” and the “worm” began. Steve Garber, NASA History Web Curator It was cool to be a space geek at that time. > That’s what the worm logo is for. Forgive me, but that’s “cue,” not “queue.”, Well folks, no need to fear, the worm logo was recently reinstated as NASA’s secondary logo, and for the recent manned Dragon launch the Falcon 9 sported the worm on its side. A font based on the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Meatball logo, designed by James Moradelli. The missing cross bars in any logo always troubles me, I do believe in keeping things simple but there needs to be a rationale behind it, in this instance I just don’t understand it. Adobe Fonts is the easiest way to bring great type into your workflow, wherever you are. NASA Font / NASA Logo Font. One is the logotype with stylized red curved text, also known as the “worm” and the other is the NASA insignia, also known as the “meatball”, featuring a sphere with a … The only problem is STS came after Apollo. About the worm logo (it reminds me of ESPN), it’s way simplier rather than the meatball, yeah, but, something’s off, I don’t know how to explain it, it just looks like a bunch of letters and thats it. Frankly it’s amazing there weren’t more disasters. Just on a slightly different note, the use of the classic American Airlines logo on the spaceships in the sci-fi movie ‘Silent Running’ look pretty nice. K�Oؑ4� You also have the patriotic color scheme going on. In OpenType savvy applications, a slanted M and W will automatically flip or straighten out depending on neighboring characters. Even though the wording is illegible when scaled down, you can still make out that it is the NASA meatball based on the blue circle with white font in the middle. The worm logo represents something simple alright. = And what logo was on the Shuttle Columbia when it broke up on reentry because controllers on the ground casually disregarded the damaged ceramic tiles on the spacecraft? The meatball logo has a sperm cell revolving around the NASA logotype in space, which symbolizes our longing to fertilize a new egg in space. Font and Color of the Emblem. ", For more information, please see Joseph R. Chambers and Mark A. It represents budget cuts, failed projects, and the downscaling of dreams. Their logo stands for something, and was a respected seal by their predecessors. Elsewhere, the NASA graphics standards manual. The typface is dated but I like the way its sparkling serifs remand me of the intro to Bewitched (the American 60s sitcom, probably not the feel NASA actually wanted). Of course, to each their own. I guess I can treat them pretty equally and enjoy anything they come up with next as long as it says “NASA”. The use of "meatball" in aeronautics also predates NASA's round insignia, but not by much.