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![[KFC flag]](../images/u/us$kfc.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin,
12 April 2016
See also:
KFC has a new commercial which involves hoisting up the corporate flag.
YouTube link is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlqHyvKZ_gM#t=38.
Darrell Neuman,
7 April 2016
The logo of KFC - Kentucky Fried Chicken - has been essentially the same
since inception of the brand in 1952: Commissioned lettering (acronym only after
1991) and the likeness of Colonel Harland Sanders, from the neck up. The latter
shows on the reported corporate flag video footage.
All variations depict
the good Colonel bespectacled, with rakish hair, and smiling, with more or less
of a grin, head more or less tilted, always in a bowtie, with some versions of
the logo showing a bit of a suit jacket, or a bit of apron. At
http://www.famouslogos.us/kfc-logo/ what passes for the gist of this
evolution, although there have been other slight changes and variations.
This photo at
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2093423977_cfd1c2d745.jpg (source
https://www.flickr.com/photos/neatocoolville/2093423977) of a 1970s paper
cup was the closest I could find, and still it doesn’t match exactly the one
shown on the flag video.
It is a seems to be a 1:2 flag, white with three
vertical dark red stripes at the fly (fly edge is red), leaving an oblong white
area at the hoist whereon the logo minus its lettering is centered, in
black-line. Exact ratio and stripes specs: 15:30 = 15:(20+2+2+2+2+2).
More info on KFC at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KFC and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_8YxDQYCo
António Martins-Tuválkin,
12 April 2016
The red and white vertical stripes on the fly of the flag are evocative of
the traditional red and white striping of the restaurant's buckets of chicken
(see
https://www.kfc.com/assets/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png,
http://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/7/6778/full-293x293/56701de1/kfc.jpeg?resolution=0,
and
https://c4.staticflickr.com/4/3211/2367559184_b7a79666e5.jpg for examples of
the striping throughout the years).
Randy Young, 14 April 2016
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