Logo milestone · 1918
Architect and designer Otto Firle created the stylised flying-crane logo for Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR), a predecessor airline that began air service on 5 February 1919. [1] [2] [3]
Lufthansa Logo
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About Lufthansa
Airline group and flag carrier
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, trading as Lufthansa Group, is a German aviation holding company. Its principal airline, Lufthansa German Airlines, is the flag carrier of Germany and one of the five founding members of the Star Alliance, established in 1997.
The modern company was founded as Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) on 6 January 1953 by staff of the former Deutsche Luft Hansa, the national airline founded in 1926 and liquidated in 1951.
Its corporate headquarters are in Cologne, and Frankfurt Airport is the airline’s primary hub. The group also owns airlines including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, ITA Airways and Swiss International Air Lines.
The crane logo was first drawn in 1918 by Otto Firle and has been kept through later redesigns, including Otl Aicher’s corporate design of the 1960s and the 2018 change to a dark blue background.
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Brand heritage
Logo history & brand milestones
One logo record is catalogued. The milestones below are dated separately from it.
The crane logo from Otto Firle’s 1918 drawing through Otl Aicher’s 1960s corporate design to the 2018 blue redesign, as recorded in the cited sources. The sources differ on the exact year of Aicher’s scheme. Company and product dates are labelled separately from design changes.
Company milestone · 1926
Deutsche Luft Hansa was formed in Berlin by the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr, and it adopted the crane symbol. [1]
Company milestone · 1953-01-06
Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) was founded in Cologne, with many staff who had worked for the pre-war Deutsche Luft Hansa. [1]
Company milestone · 1954-08-06
Luftag acquired the name and logo of the liquidated Deutsche Luft Hansa for DM 30,000, continuing the crane symbol under the Lufthansa name. [1]
Logo milestone · 1960s
Otl Aicher and students from his Gruppe E5 at the Ulm School of Design created a corporate design that redrew the crane, set it in a yellow circle on the blue tailfin and used lowercase Helvetica Bold. Creative Review dates the scheme to 1963; Wikipedia dates it to 1967. [1] [2] [3]
Visual identity milestone · 1988
A new livery kept Aicher’s concept, but removed the window band and painted the fuselage grey. [1]
Logo milestone · 2018-02-07
Lufthansa officially unveiled a redesign led by its corporate designer Ronald Wild. The crane was kept, but its circle changed from yellow to dark blue and the wordmark was redrawn; aircraft fuselages became all white with a dark blue tail. [1] [2] [3]
Research sources
- Lufthansa ↗ · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-25
- Lufthansa updates world’s oldest airline logo as part of controversial livery redesign ↗ · Dezeen, 2018-02-05 · accessed 2026-09-25
- Into the blue: Lufthansa’s new logo ↗ · Creative Review, 2018-02-07 · accessed 2026-09-25
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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Lufthansa logo Monochrome rendition · Community reproduction
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Rendition colours
Black (primary sample)Primary
- HEX
- #000000
- RGB
- 0, 0, 0
Text contrast on white21:1 · AAA
Text contrast on near-black1.11:1 · Fail
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Design context
Logo design & typography notes
The yellow introduced by Aicher is RAL 1028, called melon yellow in the RAL system and commonly known as Lufthansa yellow.
With the 2018 redesign Lufthansa made blue its lead colour and kept yellow as an accent, for example on a welcome sign next to aircraft doors.
Dezeen reports that designers including Jörg Zintzmeyer and Hartmut Esslinger adjusted Aicher’s system in later decades without changing it radically.
From the researched record (AI-assisted source review); see research sources.
Researched typography noteAicher’s design system introduced lowercase Helvetica Bold as the airline’s typeface, and Helvetica was used for the company name in the livery from the early 1960s. For the 2018 redesign, the wordmark was redrawn by Hannes von Döhren of HvD Fonts.
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Reference
Frequently asked
Who designed the Lufthansa logo?
Flying-crane logo (1918) is credited to Otto Firle. Lufthansa corporate design and redrawn crane of the 1960s is credited to Otl Aicher. Redesign of the Lufthansa brand and livery (2018) is credited to Ronald Wild. Redrawn Lufthansa wordmark (2018) is credited to Hannes von Döhren (HvD Fonts). The designer of the specific file version shown on this page is not recorded. [1] [2] [3]
Can I use the Lufthansa logo?
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When did Lufthansa change its logo?
1918: Architect and designer Otto Firle created the stylised flying-crane logo for Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR), a predecessor airline that began air service on 5 February 1919. 1960s: Otl Aicher and students from his Gruppe E5 at the Ulm School of Design created a corporate design that redrew the crane, set it in a yellow circle on the blue tailfin and used lowercase Helvetica Bold. Creative Review dates the scheme to 1963; Wikipedia dates it to 1967. 2018-02-07: Lufthansa officially unveiled a redesign led by its corporate designer Ronald Wild. The crane was kept, but its circle changed from yellow to dark blue and the wordmark was redrawn; aircraft fuselages became all white with a dark blue tail. [1] [2] [3]
What file formats are available for the Lufthansa logo in this archive?
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- github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons · icons/lufthansa.svg
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