Who designed the original Adobe logo, a stylized capital A?

Marva Warnock designed Adobe’s original logo, a stylized capital A.

Warnock was a graphic designer and the wife of John Warnock, one of Adobe’s co-founders. The logo uses a sharply angled, geometric capital A with an open interior, making it recognizable at small sizes and suitable for software packaging and printed materials.

Adobe was founded in 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. The company’s name came from Adobe Creek, which ran behind Warnock’s home in Los Altos, California. The original logo linked the company’s identity to typography and digital design from its earliest years.

The mark is sometimes confused with later Adobe product symbols, especially the red Adobe Acrobat logo. Those are product or corporate variations introduced after the company’s expansion. The original Adobe symbol is the simple black stylized A associated with the company itself.