How to Create Windows 8 Logo with CSS

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About a couple of months ago Microsoft has released their new OS “Windows 8” with a new look and a very simple new logo. It is a simple eye catching ‘dark turquoise’ colored logo. It is very simple because there isn’t used any shadow, gradient and mainly it is a one colored logo. You guys might already tried to redesign the windows 8 logo in image processing tools like Photoshop, Illustrator etc. let’s try with only CSS and little HTML. Well here this article is about to create the windows 8 logo using HTML and CSS. So let’s start and enjoy the power of CSS.

  • Windows 8 Logo with pure CSS Preview

The HTML and CSS Code to create the windows 8 logo

<html> <style type="text/css"> .win-container { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EEEEEE; border: 1px dotted #D0D0D0; height: 220px; margin: 50px auto; padding: 69px 13px 0 22px; transform: scale(0.8); -moz-transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); -o-transform: scale(0.8); width: 900px; } .box { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #00CCFF; float: left; height: 147px; position: relative; transform: perspective(374px) rotateY(-37deg); -moz-transform: perspective(374px) rotateY(-37deg); -webkit-transform: perspective(374px) rotateY(-37deg); -o-transform: perspective(374px) rotateY(-37deg); width: 200px; } .box:after, .box:before { background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #EEEEEE; content: ""; height: 100%; left: 50%; margin-left: -3px; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 8px; } .box:before { height: 6px; left: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-top: -5px; position: absolute; top: 50%; width: 100%; } .win-text { color: #00CCFF; float: left; font-family: myriad pro; font-size: 138px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: -6px; padding-left: 40px; } </style> <div class="win-container"> <div class="box"></div> <div class="win-text">Windows 8</div> </div> </html>

Instruction:

  1. Open a text editor like Notepad, Notepad++, Geany etc.
  2. (I recommend using Notepad of Windows)
  3. Copy and paste the code just I provided
  4. Save as example.html
  5. Open “example.html”

Don’t stop by my code. Play with it…, enjoy learning.
How to Create Windows 8 Logo with CSS How to Create Windows 8 Logo with CSS Reviewed by Shuvojit Das on 12:39 AM Rating: 5

1 comment:

  1. Great. ...wonder if it's browser-friendly! Does the CSS rotate transform:perspective work on any other browsers apart from webkit-based ones?

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