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FDA Logo Policy
The FDA logo should not be used to misrepresent the agency nor to suggest that FDA endorses any private organization, product, or service. Misuse of the FDA logo may violate federal law and subject those responsible to criminal penalties.
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General Information
"Logos and seals of the Federal Government, Departments, Bureaus, and Independent Agencies are not in the public domain, and cannot be used for other than official business without specific authorization of the agency involved."
Joint Committee on Printing, United States Congress
The FDA Logo is for the official use of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and not for the use of the private sector on its materials. To the public, such use would send a message that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration favors or endorses an organization, its activities, its products, its services, and/or its personnel (either overtly or tacitly) which it does not and cannot do.
Whether the private sector partner/grantee/vendor/contractor is non-profit or commercial is not a factor. Regardless of how funded, non-FDA communication products are for the principle benefit and use of the partner/grantee/vendor/contractor and not for the principle benefit or use of the Government. Non-FDA communication products are not construed to be Government communication products.
Use on Proposals or Consulting Deliverables
Contractors may not use the FDA logo on proposals or consulting deliverables.
Publications Developed by Contractors
If a contractor deliverable is camera-ready or other reproducible copy, for the express purpose of being an FDA publication for FDA distribution to the public; then, and only then, may the contractor affix the FDA logo, under the direction and guidance of the FDA project officer and as approved by the Office of the Commissioner.
Private Sector or Contractor Logos on Government Publications
FDA components may not use private sector or contractor logos on Government publications or other Government communication products. Such use is prohibited. Whether or not the private sector organization is non-profit or commercial is not a factor.
Private sector logos constitute institutional advertising. Using a private sector logo on a Government communication product (regardless of intent) implies that the Government favors or endorses all that which the logo represents.
Section 13 of the Government Printing and Binding Regulations, published by the Joint Committee on Printing, United States Congress, makes clear:
"No Government publication or other Government printed matter, prepared or produced with either appropriated or non-appropriated funds or identified with an activity of the Government, shall contain any advertisement inserted by or for any private individual, firm, or corporation; or contain material which implies in any manner that the Government endorses or favors any specific commercial product, commodity, or service."
Logo Use and Colors
The logo is for official use of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Approved uses are:
Printing purposes (pamphlets, posters, flyers, booklets, periodicals, etc.).
Exhibits and other public affairs-related materials.
On FDA and Operating Division business cards.
The logo cannot be used:
By the private sector, including grantees, vendors, and contractors.
In combination with other elements to create a logo for an office or program.
Size
The logo should never be reduced to a size of less than 5/8 inch in length.
Logo Colors
The official colors of the FDA logo are either Black or Pantone 287.
RGB Numbers: R=51 G=51 B=153, Hexadecimal: #333399, CMYK: C=96 M=95 Y=0 K=0
Single-Color Reproduction
The logo may appear in Pantone 287 or in Black. If special circumstances require the use of a different color, only full, deep colors are acceptable. No partial colors or screen tints are allowed.
Sufficient contrast should be maintained between the logo and the field on which it is reproduced. White is the preferred field when surprinting or overprinting the logo.
Two-Color Reproduction
Two-color or multi-color reproduction of the logo is not permitted.
Official FDA Logo
Caution: The FDA logo should not be used to misrepresent the agency nor to suggest that FDA endorses any private organization, product, or service. Misuse of the FDA logo may violate federal law and subject those responsible to criminal penalties.
- For high resolution printing please download the fdalogos.pdf(28 KB). After downloading the fdalogos.pdf, open it from within a postscript program such as Adobe Illustrator® or Adobe Photoshop®. These programs will read Postscript® documents, and give you the ability to select, crop and save a single logo for high resolution printing.
- These logos are best used for purposes of low resolution printing and/or Web publishing. To save a graphic using Windows®, hold the mouse on the desired logo, right-click, release, and select "Save picture as" from the menu bar. Using Macintosh®, while holding down the CTRL key, hold the mouse button down over the image until a window opens and select "Save this image as".
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