Adobe PDF Logo

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Adobe PDF logo

About Adobe PDF

A white/very light-grey document icon with a folded top-right corner and a subtle vertical gradient. A horizontal red banner sits across the upper-left of the page with the white uppercase letters "PDF". Centered on the page is a red, triangular, ribbon-like abstract mark (the Acrobat/"A" ribbon). Beneath the ribbon mark is the grey wordmark text "Adobe".

The design mixes flat colour blocks (the red banner and ribbon) with mild skeuomorphic details — a page fold and soft drop shadow at the document's lower-left — giving a slightly dimensional, corporate look.

What's in it: document/page stylized 'A' ribbon (Acrobat mark)

Shapes: folded-corner document rectangular banner stylized ribbon/triangular mark wordmark

Style: corporate minimal skeuomorphic (folded page) flat shapes with gradients

Text in logo: PDF, Adobe

Visually communicates a document/file (page with folded corner) and the Acrobat/PDF format via the red ribbon 'A' mark; the red banner emphasizes the PDF label.

Colors

Extracted from the image. How we pick the colors →

Adobe red

#D23A2A · primary

Paper white

#FFFFFF · secondary

Light grey (page gradient)

#ECECEC · secondary

Neutral dark grey (text/shadow)

#6A6A6A · accent

Adobe PDF Logo History

The image is the Adobe Acrobat/PDF file icon associated with Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF was created and released by Adobe in 1993; Acrobat Reader and the Acrobat family of products popularized the PDF as a cross-platform document format.