HDFC Bank Logo
As apparent from the name, this is a bank. HDFC Bank Limited is an Indian banking and financial services company. The name is short for Housing Development Finance Corporation. The headquarters of the parent company (HDFC) and its subsidiary are located in Mumbai, India. The bank’s operations are almost entirely focused on the local market. HDFC has a few branches in Bahrain, the UAE, Hong Kong, and Kenya. However, only one percent of its income comes from overseas operations. Nonetheless, the bank’s statistics are very impressive, as it is the largest bank in India by market capitalization.
Meaning and History
HDFC Bank was created in 1994 as a subsidiary of the HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation), which is a major financing company with a focus on housing. Several years later, HDFC Bank merged with Times Bank, which was founded by The Times Group, India’s largest media conglomerate. In 2008, Centurion Bank of Punjab was acquired by HDFC Bank. HDFC Bank opened its first overseas branch in Bahrain in the same year. In 2022, HDFC and HDFC Bank announced a merger, bringing the housing finance company under the wing of HDFC Bank. As a result, public shareholders of HDFC Bank will become 100% shareholders of HDFC.
What is HDFC Bank?
HDFC Bank is one of India’s biggest banking providers in the private sector by assets. HDFC Bank provides employment to over one hundred thousand individuals. It also has close to six thousand branches in about 3,000 cities across the country and beyond its borders to serve its customers.
1994 – Today
The HDFC Bank logo depicts a deep blue rectangle featuring the bank’s name written across. The name is written in capital white letters, using wide sans-serif font. The lettering has straight lines, which further strengthens an impression of a trustworthy and reliable organization. On the left, it’s connected to a white square with a smaller blue square in the middle and red L-shaped elements along with the corners. It serves as a good contrasting element and gives some interest to an otherwise simple emblem. Moreover, the square element resembles a similar image used by the main company, which is also positioned to the left of the name.
They also occasionally use their motto, which is written in black slim letters below the central piece. It says “We understand your world”.
Font and Color
There is not much to be told about the font the financial organization chose to use for its logo. It is a plain, sans serifs typeface with clean lines. Such font is very appropriate for a banking institution as it shows that the company is transparent and its services are easy to use. It is notable that the font differs from the one used by the parent company. There are some traces of the HDFC’s logo, though. These include the use of white color for the name as well as red elements. The base color of the emblem is a deep blue color, which is always associated with professionalism, reliability, and trustworthiness. These are all the features one would be looking for in a bank.
