Most Famous Logos With a Leaf PNG
It is quite difficult to answer the question of what element can not be found in the logo of at least one company today because the variety is simply immense. However, there is a group of symbols and pictures that are chosen by brands and designers more often than others. And the reason for this is not only in the beautiful shape or color palette of these elements but also in the associations and emotions that they cause. Today we will just talk about one of these symbols, the Leaf.
So, let’s delve into the symbolism. In general, leaves are a symbol of life, growth, rebirth, and connection with nature. The image of a leaf is also an expression of closeness to nature and a desire for balance between humans and the world around us. That is why this graphical element is so often used by companies whose activities are in one way or another related to ecology.
The green leaf is also a symbol of Venus, the goddess of beauty, love, and fertility. Therefore, various leaves of plants can be found in the logos of cosmetic brands, the purpose of which is to emphasize female beauty.
As for the historical paradigm, the symbol of the leaf has been found in the culture of different countries since ancient times. For example, in Egypt, the lotus leaf symbolized resurrection and immortality, and in Greece, the olive leaf was a symbol of peace and victory. To this day, olive wreaths crown the heads of the winners. In medieval Europe, leaves often symbolized life itself and growth. And in the Renaissance era widely used images of vine leaves as a symbol of abundance and fertility.
Now, with all of the above in mind, we can look at brand logos that use leaf imagery from a slightly different angle. Below you will find a selection of the most interesting, in our opinion, instances.
Aer Lingus
Aer Lingus is the name of an Irish air carrier, and as we all know, one of the most famous symbols of Ireland is the clover. Clover is considered to be a symbol of good luck and prosperity. In this logo, it is depicted in a bright green color, with clean soft contours, and is located in the upper right corner of the composition. The emblem is supported by modern medium-weight lettering in a custom sans-serif typeface with some of the bars softened, supporting the shape of the clover.
Air Canada
If clover is for Ireland, then Canada has its own symbol, a maple leaf, which is also the most significant part of its national flag design. Hence, many Canadian brands and companies use the fancy and sharp silhouette of a maple leaf for their logos, and Air Canada is no exception. The solid red leaf, enclosed in a red circular frame is placed on the right from a wide enlarged lettering in the uppercase of a modern sans-serif typeface, creating a stable and powerful composition.
Animal Crossing
On the boring brown background of the Animal Crossing logo the solid green leaf, placed on the top part, is more of a color accent than a sacral symbol. It brings up a playful mood and a feeling of joy and fun, making the wooden banner with muted yellow lettering more vivid and eye-catching. Without this leaf, the badge would probably have gone unnoticed at all.
Archer Daniels Midland
The food processing corporation Archer Daniels Midland is commonly known as ADM, and this “shortening approach” is used by the company not only for its naming but also for its visual identity design. The badge of the brand is composed of just two elements, which are drawn in thick solid lines against a plain white background without any framing. It is a bold dark-blue abbreviation in a softened modern sans-serif font and a contoured laconic green leaf placed above it.
Balance of Nature
As we can guess from the name of the brand, the leaf in its logo symbolizes nature and balance. The small yet bright graphical element is inscribed into the delicate and lightweight lettering, written in one straight line in a modern distinctive sans-serif typeface, across a plain white background. The vertically-oriented smooth-green leaf replaced the “A” in the “Nature”, placing the accent on where it has to be.
Breyers
Breyers is the name of a company, engaged in the food production industry, hence the green learning logo symbolizes freshness and the use of natural ingredients. Considering, that the main company’s field is frozen desserts, the leaf of mint makes even more sense, since it also cools and freshens up, as any of the Breyers ice creams. Drawn in a three-dimensional style with dewdrops on its surface, the emblem is completed by bold script lettering, which makes the badge more professional and strong.
Canadian Tire
The visual identity of the Canadian Tire brand is based on the image of a maple leaf, which is drawn in quite a small size, in solid green, on top of a solid intense-red triangular crest with softened angles. Since the trifle is potting down, the maple leaf overlaps its top straight border, creating kind of a crown for the minimalistic composition. The badge has no other elements, and, to be honest, it doesn’t need any.
Cargill
The graphical element on the Cargill logo can be seen as a leaf, a bridge, a roof, or an umbrella. But due to its pleasant green color and softened contours, it adds a very friendly accent to the bold black lettering and shows the company’s values. The arched top part of the Cargill leaf also works as a connection line, a symbol of unity and cooperation, while the green color symbolizes life and growth.
Clover
Surprise surprise, but the logo of the Clover brand contains an image of a clover! And while the four-leaf clover is a sign of good luck, the Three-leaf plant, such as the one depicted on this banner, is a symbol of independence and freedom. It is drawn in a light green gradient with small yellow marks, and placed above the arched elegant lettering in a darker green, with its stem line merging into the elongated tail of the lowercase “E” from the wordmark.
Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle is a chain of supermarkets, which means that the quality and freshness of the products are the main priority of the company. And this parameter is reflected in the brand’s visual identity — two delicate green leaves on top of the banner, where the bold and stable lowercase lettering in a modern geometric sans-serif typeface, plays the main role. You can also see it in the color, chosen for the inscription — deep red.
Iberdrola
The European energy-providing company, Iberdrola, has several leaves in its logo. The minimalistic solid-colored leaves are placed vertically overlapping each other, in the left part of the banner. The leaves are drawn in three shades — green, bright blue, and orange, and only the green one has a stem, while the front one is the orange leaf. The emblem is followed by a clean green title case lettering in a geometric sans-serif typeface with full-shape rounded characters.
Kashi
The Kashi logo is executed in two flat shades of green and has the lettering part as the main element of the composition. The smooth title case wordmark in a bold yet elegant serif typeface with rounded contours of the characters is written in a dark green hue against a plain white background and has the dot above the “I” replaced by a bright green leaf, drawn in a stylized minimalistic manner.
Leaf Group
The vertically oriented solid blue leaf from the logo of the Leaf Group also looks like a sleek stylized tree. It is enlarged and placed in the left part of the banner, followed by a two leveled dark gray inscription, written in two different styles: the extra large and bold lowercase “Leaf” and the lightweight “Group” in small capitals, set at the very bottom of the badge.
Lendingtree
Another brand, which uses the leaf image as a replacement for the dot above the “I” is LendingTree. In this logo, the bold and confident lowercase lettering looks like a drawing itself, with its interesting characters’ contours, softened angles and some of the bar ends sharpened. The solid black inscription has only one decoration, a large yet laconic green leaf contour, which is set above the vertical bar of the “I”, and slightly slanted to the right.
MapleStory
The only graphical element on the MapleStory logo is, of course, a maple leaf. Drawn with smooth lines, the solid dark-red leaf has a very elegant shape, different from the one we got used to seeing on the badges of Canadian companies. The leaf is placed in the top right corner of the composition, after the playful jumpy black lettering in a custom typeface. Here the maple leaf represents tenderness and care, and the shade of red used for it — is a symbol of warmth.
MongoDB
Even though MongoDB is a company from the IT segment, and has nothing to do with ecology or natural products, it also uses a symbol of a leaf for its visual identity. Here the emblem is drawn vertically, on the left from the elegant serif lettering in black and gray, and also uses two shades for its surface: the lighter green for its left half, and the darker — for the right one. The MongoDB leaf stands for growth, progress, and success.
MorningStar
The central graphical element on the MorningStar logo is a flower or a star, made of five delicate leaves drawn in slightly different sizes and in two color variations: bright and dark green with a white dotted pattern. The leaf-star makes up a continuation of the sharpened and elongated tail of the “S”, written in the middle line of the badge, in a lighter green hue than the two other levels.
Naked Juice
The Naked Juice logo has a perfectly bright and contrasting color palette, composed of a navy shade of blue, white, and a lively green hue. The rounded title case lettering in white is written against a wavy blue banner with uneven edges decorated by thin light blue strokes. And the green leaf is drawn diagonally above the “E”, creating a delicate yet eye-catching accent.
Nestea
The visual identity of the Nestea brand is executed in the similar style to the logo, described above. However, there are some significant differences. First of all, all of the elements on this badge are executed in a clean and modern style, with distinctive contours and smoothly integrated gradients. Secondly, the inscription is written in a bold uppercase of a custom elegant typeface, with the white capitals outlined in blue. And, thirdly, the green part of the badge is composed of three green leafed, with thin white and orange line accents on their bodies.
Serla
The Serla company uses a leaf image as the main element of its badge, as it is enlarged on the background of the composition, making up the whole banner in white the elegant white lettering in the title case of a smooth custom font is written. The dark green shadows of the wordmark are supported by the dark green strokes, shaping the leaf, and the thin blurred lines drawn all over the body of the background element.
Seventh Generation
The visual identity of the Seventh Generation company is super memorable and cool since it uses quite an unusual leaf image as the main element. The large vertically oriented banner on the background of the brand’s logo is drawn in the shape of a leaf, made of several smaller ones, with the gradient green shades getting lighter from bottom to top. It looks sleek, fresh, and very stylish, even with a pretty simple white lettering overlapping it in the central part.
Shady Maple
As you can guess from the name of the brand, Shady Maple, the main graphical element of its logo is a large and bright maple leaf, executed in a dark green and yellow color palette. The emblem is placed against a very light blue background, under a bold arched lettering, written in a classy serif typeface, in the same dark green and yellow color scheme.
SMA
Even though the SMA automaking brand uses an image of a classy maple leaf as the central element of its visual identity, it doesn’t mean, that its motherland is Canada. The Geely subsidiary, SMA is a Chinese company, but no one ever said that Canada has a monopoly on the use of the maple leaf symbol. Here it’s drawn in the middle of a silver roundel in a wide black frame and is executed in glossy vivid blue shades, outlined in smooth silver.
SproutGigs
SproutGigs is an innovative marketplace platform, which offers not products, but services, provided by freelancers from all over the world. The leaf emblem here is drawn in a super laconic schematic way, with the main element, a stem, executed as a graph going up, symbolizing growth, success, and evolution. The green color palette of the badge, made of two shades, only supports the “successful” idea of the concept.
Sprouts
Another Sprouts in our lists, but this time the real ones. The farmers market visual identity is executed in a pleasant color palette composed of two shades of green and has the leaf image inscribed into the contour of the “O”, in the enlarged capitalized “Sprouts” wordmark. The elegant leaf with an elongated stem is drawn in the right, darker half, of the letter’s open-ring contour, creating a swirl-like image, representing life and freshness.
Surrey County Council
Oak is one of the symbols of Surrey County, hence there is no surprise to see the emblem with the oak leaves in its visual identity. Drawn in a dark green and white color palette, the two oak leaves with softened contours, make up a yin-yang styled image. The emblem is placed above the two-leveled lettering in the same scheme, with geometric shapes of the uppercase characters and distinctive straight cuts of the bars.
Syngenta
Syngenta is one of the world’s leading companies in the agricultural segment, so it’s quite logical, that a leaf image makes up a significant part of its visual identity. However, it is quite a minimalistic and even modestly drawn emblem, set in plain green without any contouring or details. The green leaf is placed above the lowercase “G” with an elegant old-school shape, replacing the possible elongated line coming out of its circular segment.
Tang
On the logo of the Tang brand, the leaf is used as the main banner shape, with its contour drawn in small sharp edges. The gradient surface of the leaf badge, drawn in dark and matte shades of green, boasts a bold white uppercase wordmark cut-out on it, hence depending on the background of the composition, the color of the inscription may vary. The logo looks fresh, modern, and more than confident.
Toronto Maple Leafs
And here we are coming back to the Canadian legacy. The visual identity story of the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey club is fully based on the image of a maple leaf, which is drawn in a solid shade of blue with thin white lines for detailing, and creates a banner, in which the name of the team is written in three levels: the arched top one, and two straight bottom lines, all three of them are executed in a simple geometric sans-serif font.
Toronto Marlies
Another hockey club from Canada, Toronto Marlies, also uses the same solid blue maple leaf as the basis for their logo. It’s drawn in exactly the same style as the one from the Maple Leafs badge, yet the Marlies one has no lettering on it. The blue leaf with thin white lines in it features a classy traditional crown in yellow, red, and blue, drawn in its center. The combination of a modern symbol and a heraldic one creates a memorable and recognizable composition.
Toronto Rock
The maple leaf on the logo of the Toronto Rock lacrosse team is drawn behind the massive custom lettering in a cold silver and blue color palette and looks more like three flame tongues, coming to the three sides, and warming up everything around. This symbol stands for the power and determination of the team, at the same time supporting the national idea and reflecting patriotism and pride in a new interpretation.
Tropicana
The visual identity of the Tropicana juice brand is composed of stylish stable lettering written in the title base of a custom sans-serif typeface with slightly narrowed heavy characters, and a delicate leaf-shaped emblem, drawn in the same smoothly gradient green color palette as the wordmark, and placed above the body of the “I”, with its sleek elegantly elongated to above the “P”.
WestJet Airlines
WestJet Airlines is another Canadian company in our list, and another brand, that uses an image of a maple leaf in its logo. Here the leaf is drawn in an interesting geometric style, with the use of two shades of blue — a blurred light one and an intense navy. The leaf is drawn slightly slanted to the right, with the bottom left segment cut out, making up an arrow-like shape, standing for flight and speed.
Whole Foods Market
The Whole Foods Market logo is executed in a dark green and white color palette, with the white lettering written in three levels against a solid green roundel. The tiny elegantly curved leaf makes up a part of the “O” contour, which looks like a juicy fresh apple. Here the leaf element symbolizes the freshness and natural origin of the products, sold by the famous American chain.
