Rolling Stones Logo

A bold, stylized red mouth with full lips and an extended tongue occupying most of the mark. The tongue and lips are rendered in flat red with two white highlights on the tongue and a white highlight across the upper inner mouth. The entire...

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Red stylised lips with an extended tongue, white highlights and black outline (iconic rock logo).
Rolling Stones logo

About Rolling Stones

A bold, stylized red mouth with full lips and an extended tongue occupying most of the mark. The tongue and lips are rendered in flat red with two white highlights on the tongue and a white highlight across the upper inner mouth. The entire motif is defined by a thick black outline and internal black shadowing that separates the tongue from the mouth.

The design is a single pictorial element (no readable wordmark present in the provided image). The artwork is graphic and cartoon-like, using high-contrast red, black and white for a striking, easily recognisable silhouette.

What's in it: lips tongue

Shapes: stylized lips (open mouth) protruding tongue thick black outline organic/curvilinear shapes

Style: pop-art graphic bold flat colour cartoonish retro

A defiant, playful or provocative mouth/tongue motif; visually suggests boldness, irreverence and rock attitude.

Colors

Extracted from the image. How we pick the colors →

Bright red
#E4002B · primary
Dark red (shadow)
#A20017 · secondary
Black
#000000 · accent
White
#FFFFFF · accent

Rolling Stones Logo History

This tongue-and-lips mark was created for the Rolling Stones in 1970 by designer John Pasche; it was inspired by Mick Jagger's mouth and partly by the Hindu goddess Kali, and it became the band's primary logo during the early 1970s.

Frequently asked

Who designed this logo?

The mark was designed in 1970 by John Pasche for the Rolling Stones.

What does the logo represent?

Visually it depicts an open mouth with an extended tongue, conveying defiance, playfulness and rock 'n' roll attitude.

When did it first appear?

The design was created in 1970 and came into use by the band in the early 1970s.

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