Company milestone · 1967
Chung Ju-yung and his brother Chung Se-yung founded Hyundai Motor Company. [2]
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Hyundai’s tilted H and oval form a vehicle-brand emblem, while the accompanying Hyundai wordmark is a separate part of the lockup. Chrome badges and flat digital versions can be different applications of the same identity.
Hyundai Motor Company is a South Korean automotive manufacturer established in 1967. Chung Ju-yung, who had founded the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company in 1947, founded it with his brother Chung Se-yung.
The name Hyundai means “modernity” in Korean. Hyundai dates its identity as an independent vehicle maker to 1974, when it presented the Pony, its first car developed for international markets, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
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Hyundai has 12 downloadable files in SVG, PNG in this archive. 1 logo record is catalogued; that is not the number of verified redesigns.
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Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
Oval H and wordmark; source reproduction · Current
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Brand heritage
One logo record is catalogued. The milestones below are dated separately from it.
The company’s founding, the HD monogram of the Pony era, the tilted-H emblem introduced in the early 1990s and its later chrome and wordmark applications, as described in the cited sources. Company and product dates are labelled separately from design changes.
Company milestone · 1967
Chung Ju-yung and his brother Chung Se-yung founded Hyundai Motor Company. [2]
Product milestone · 1974
Hyundai presented the Pony, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. The brand’s logo at that time was a stylised HD monogram, which remained in use until the early 1990s. [1]
Logo milestone · Early 1990s
Hyundai describes its earlier HD monogram giving way to a tilted H within an ellipse in the early 1990s. The available history supports an approximate period rather than a precise launch day. [1]
Visual identity milestone · 1999
Hyundai records the addition of a chrome finish to the emblem. A material or finish change does not by itself establish a new underlying symbol. [1]
Company milestone · 2000
Hyundai Motor Company formed a strategic alliance with DaimlerChrysler and severed its partnership with the Hyundai Group. [2]
Visual identity milestone · From 2003
Hyundai says the symbol was increasingly accompanied by its name from 2003. [1]
Compiled 2026-09-25 by AI-assisted source review. Each statement links its sources; an editor has not yet independently confirmed them.
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Design context
Hyundai explains the H as a customer and company representative shaking hands, and the ellipse as international reach. The identity history does not establish an individual logo designer or a verified logo font.
Hyundai says that from the IONIQ range the traditional logo was removed from the centre of the steering wheel and replaced by four LED pixels forming an H in Morse code.
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1999: Hyundai records the addition of a chrome finish to the emblem. A material or finish change does not by itself establish a new underlying symbol. [1]
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Same industry
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Honda and Hyundai both use an H-based vehicle badge, but their shapes differ. Compare Honda’s upright framed H with Hyundai’s slanted H inside a wider oval.
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