Sony Max (India)/Other

This page details the on-air graphics packages used by the Indian TV channel Sony Max. It has been split from the main Sony Max page.

Overview of graphics packages[]

Sony Max Channel Ident History (1999–Present) - ChildishRifty7

-UPDATED- Sony Max (INDIA) Channel Ident History (1999-2022) - Version (2.0)

1999–2010[]

2002–2007[]

Network Package-Sony Entertainment Television Network Package

Sony MAX(2004) ID - 1

Sony MAX(2004) ID - 2

Sony MAX(2004) ID - 3

S Max Sony TV India Broadcast Design by Belief 2002

Sony Max 2005 Sponsor Ident 1

Sony Max 2005 Sponsor Ident 2

Sony Max 2005 Sponsor Ident 3

Sony Max 2005 Sponsor Ident 4

Sony Max 2005 Tonight Promo

2007–2010[]

This video was created in 2007. The graphics package of Sony Max is featured along with those of SET, Sony Sab and Sony Pix, which was launched the previous year (April 2006).

2010–2012[]

Sony Max Ident (2010)

Sony Max – Brand Edit

Svenja Frahm Showreel 2010

The graphics featured the Avant-Garde font that has formerly been used by many Sony channels.

Behance

2012–2015[]

Sony_Max_India-Sony_Max_India_Network_Redesign

Designer:

Charlie Co

Typography:

Gotham and ITC Avant Garde

Launched:

28 May 2012

A new look was introduced on 28 May 2012, on the same day that Sony TV HD was launched, and a day after the final of that year’s Indian Premier League. This was designed by Charlie Co, a California-based agency.

The popular Gotham font was introduced as the channel’s main on-screen typeface, with Avant-Garde playing a secondary role. Gotham, like Avant-Garde, has been used by several Indian Sony channels, most recently Sony Sab in 2019.

Presentation Archive (UK) (the graphics were introduced in India only in 2012, not 2010)
Campaign India

Sony Max ident 2012

This graphics package was reused by Sony Wah from its launch in 2016 until 2019, when it adopted the 2014–17 graphics package of Sony Max 2.

2015–2019[]

Designer:

Plenty

Typography:

Effra and Grumpy Black24

Launched:

25 May 2015

A new graphics package was introduced introduced on 25 May 2015, a day after the final of that year’s Indian Premier League (like in 2012), and designed by the Argentine creative agency Plenty. It featured petal-like shapes folding and animating across blue, yellow and red backgrounds.

The on-screen fonts were Grumpy Black24 for headline text and Effra for body text, replacing the long-standing Gotham and Avant-Garde, though Gotham continued to be used on social media. While the SD channel used a blue, yellow and red graphics package, the HD feed, launched on Christmas 2015, used a bronze-gold graphics package.

SD channel (May 2015–July 2019):

Sony Max Channel Ident 2015

HD channel (December 2015–July 2019):

Sony Max HD Television Par Pehli Baar

Sony Max HD Television Par Pehli Baar Ident

Rebranding page on Behance (the bronze graphics used by Sony Max HD are in the ‘Festive Package’ section)
Art of Channel Branding
Graphics montage
DreamDTH

2019–2022 (twentieth anniversary)[]

Designer:

Sandeep Bodade

Typography:

Montserrat

Launched:

20 July 2019

Another graphics package was introduced on 20 July 2019 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the channel. Sony Max reverted to the yellow, tan and orange colour combination used in 2012–2015, dropping blue and red, but with a new graphics package. The graphics were designed by Indian designer Sandeep Bodade, who has designed the graphics of Sony Sab, Sony Marathi and Sony Mix in the past, among others.

Sony Max Rebranding on Behance

The key design element is a rectangular frame that rotates and casts shadows on the screen. The on-screen font is now Montserrat, a widely popular font developed in Argentina, the country where many channels of Sony and rival network Zee had their graphics packages created.