the.com/logo

A company's face, shrunk to fit a thumbnail and a soul.

means A simple graphic mark or symbol a company uses to make itself instantly recognizable.

from Shortened from 'logotype,' a 19th-century printing term for a single cast piece of metal type that combined multiple letters or a whole word, so a printer could stamp it in one go instead of setting each letter separately. The 'logo-' part traces back to Greek 'logos,' meaning word or speech. The word kept the efficiency and lost the printing press — by the 20th century 'logo' had drifted from 'word cast as one block' to 'brand mark that says everything without using any.'

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