【???? ????????? ?? ????????】Mastercard just changed its logo for the first time in 20 years

Mastercard's familiar orange and ???? ????????? ?? ????????red circles just got a facelift.

The credit card company rolled out a minimalist new logo on Thursday -- its first adjustment in two decades.

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Instead of interlocking in the middle as they previously did, the two circles now blend into one another in a design that looks exactly like a Venn diagram.

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In addition to the simplified icon, the white drop-shadowed typeface that used to splay out across it has been lowercased and dropped below.

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The change, which was orchestrated by branding agency Pentagram, fits with what seems to be the vogue in corporate logo design right now -- simple one-dimensional shapes and serif-free basic fonts that translate better in digital formats. Verizon, Ihop and Google have all moved in the same direction in the past year.

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The new logo is also meant to mark the company's shift into online payment platforms and evolving financial services tech.

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