Confession time. The duck in sunglasses that sat in the corner of GifNoBg was never meant to be the logo. It was a placeholder: something to put in the corner on day one, “just until there’s a proper one”.
You know how that goes. It ended up in the header, in your browser tab, on your phone’s home screen and on every link anyone shared. Placeholders are sticky. Ours was practically laminated.
So it’s time. Meet the real one.
Still a duck, now made of pixels
The duck earned its spot, so it stayed. What changed is how it’s drawn. The new mark is built from square blocks, like the pixels in a GIF, because pixels are what GifNoBg works with all day. Every sticker you make is decided one pixel at a time: keep this one, drop that one.
Squares have a practical upside too. There are no thin lines or soft curves to turn into mush when the logo shrinks, so it stays sharp at every size, from the big icon on your home screen down to the tiny one in a browser tab.
About that eye
Look closely and one eye is an ×. Is it a wink? A duck that just watched its background vanish? Somebody who has cut out one sticker too many tonight? We’re not going to tell you. Pick your favourite.
Yellow, white, and a little .com
- The duck is bright yellow. Loud enough to spot in a row of tabs, and the same yellow you’ll already know from the app.
- The name is plain white. No rainbow, no gradient. The duck brings the colour; the name just says what it is.
- “.com” sits right under the name, so the logo doubles as the address. See it once and you know where to type.
Where you’ll see it
Everywhere the old duck used to live: the top of the app, the help pages, this blog, your browser tab, the icon if you’ve added GifNoBg to your home screen, and the preview card when you share a link. If your tab still shows the old duck, give it a day or two. Browsers like to hold on to their little icons.
What didn’t change
Everything that matters. GifNoBg is still free, still needs no sign-up, still adds no watermark, and still does all the work on your own device, so your videos never get uploaded. New face, same duck.
Free, right in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
And the sunglasses duck? Not gone, just retired. Even placeholders deserve a pension. If you have thoughts on the new look, good or brutally honest, tell me on the contact page.
