Cartoon Network (United States)

1991 (pre-launch)


Before Cartoon Network had started broadcasting, they used this logo in their marketing to cable operators and advertisers. The character in the middle was interchangeable with characters from the shows that were going to run on the network. The logo was designed by J.J. Sedelmaier Productions.


 * Click here to see the Cartoon Network pre-launch advertisement reel for more variations of this logo.

1992–2004 (original); 1992-present (Cartoon Network Productions)


The Cartoon Network logo used on the channel's official launch on October 1, 1992, featuring a 7x2 grid with alternating black and white patterns. Around this time, Cartoon Network launched to only a handful of cable operators. This logo is still used occasionally in bylines, intros such as The Amazing World of Gumball, and as the closing logo in video releases of Cartoon Network programming. It is no longer used as an onscreen logo, but its still used on Cartoon Network licensed consumer packaging. It looked like the 2010 logo, but the font for the 2010 logo was in bold. This is was also used for the 2004 logo, but only CN is used.

2004–2010


On June 14, 2004, Cartoon Network launched a new look with a new logo which replaced the one which had been used since the network was launched almost 12 years earlier. The new logo is made up of two cubes with the network initials, C and N, written on them, with the full name underneath. The development of the new identity was led in-house, with Animal Logic in Sydney, Australia creating new 3D-animated graphics and IDs.


 * While our programming has always been innovative and fluid, the on-air packaging surrounding the original and acquired material has remained relatively unchanged over the lifespan of our median age viewer, typically a child between the ages of 6-8 years old. So we embarked on this significant undertaking a little more than a year ago to be ready to reveal an all-new environment in time for peak viewing and sampling during the summer months.
 * The new logo, simply provided a more contemporary, flexible, design-driven option for our animators to use or manipulate in a variety of creative ways on-air.


 * — Jim Samples, executive vice president and general manager, Cartoon Network Worldwide, in a press release

The on-air look featured a 3D world with more than 50 animated characters from the network's shows.

Note
Cartoon Network is only a cable channel/production studio, and has never distributed its own shows.