# What happened to CIA's logo on cia.gov?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831 "2017-03-23T13:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![MaverocK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@MaverocK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaverocK)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831/1 "2017-03-23T13:27:43Z")

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What happened to CIA’s logo on [cia.gov](http://cia.gov)? 🙂

It looks as if someone is holding a torch light to the logo from the back or the front. It was not like this in the past.

Notice the difference between

the logo from CIA’s website:  
[![](https://www.cia.gov/++theme++contextual.agencytheme/images/logo.png) ](https://www.cia.gov/++theme++contextual.agencytheme/images/logo.png)

the logo from CIA’s social media account on Twitter  
[https://pbs.twimg.com/profile\_images/474250448757481472/QcQ\_P01E\_400x400.jpeg](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/474250448757481472/QcQ_P01E_400x400.jpeg)

(to the right of the bird’s head)

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831/2 "2017-03-23T13:52:04Z")

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One is a faux 3D render/embossing. Increasingly common in this era of “flat images are just too too boring” webbery.

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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831/3 "2017-03-23T14:22:37Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> One is a faux 3D render/embossing. Increasingly common in this era of “flat images are just too too boring” webbery.

I think that era was ten years ago. We’re back to flat now.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831/4 "2017-03-23T14:27:49Z")

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> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> I think that era was ten years ago. We’re back to flat now.

Which means that at least a third of the web (CIA included) is too hip to be cool. 😃

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**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831/5 "2017-03-23T14:33:40Z")

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Obviously Obama’s fault.

🙂

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**Author:** ![Erik\_the\_Viking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Erik\_the\_Viking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erik_the_Viking)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-cias-logo-on-cia-gov/782831/6 "2017-03-23T16:13:09Z")

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The CIA logo looks like an eagle giving a lecture.