What Is the Minecraft Logo?
The Minecraft logo is the word MINECRAFT in chunky, blocky capital letters that look as if they were carved out of grey stone. A creeper face is hidden in the A.
Minecraft is the block-building video game by Mojang Studios of Stockholm, Sweden, first released publicly by its creator Markus "Notch" Persson on 17 May 2009. Microsoft bought Mojang in 2014.
Mojang uses the detailed stone lettering inside the game and a flatter version of the same word for the wider franchise. The stone wordmark is available as the Minecraft logo SVG.
Minecraft Logo Facts
| Introduced | 2011, with the hand-drawn stone lettering of Beta 1.4 |
| Symbol | None; a creeper face is hidden in the A |
| Logo type | Wordmark: the name in stone-textured letters |
| Earlier mark | MINECRAFT spelt out in cobblestone blocks, 2009 |
| Owner | Mojang Studios |
What the Minecraft Logo Means
The game is about mining blocks and crafting with them, and the name joins those two words. The logo shows the same idea: each letter looks like a block of stone cut out of a hillside, the raw material every player starts with.
The lettering is tilted slightly upwards, so it reads like a solid object rather than flat type.
The creeper face in the A borrows a monster from the game, the creeper, cut into the letter as a hole. It turns the wordmark into a small piece of the game itself.
Minecraft Logo History
The Minecraft logo began in May 2009 as the name built out of cobblestone blocks, and has been redrawn several times since.
| Year | Logo change |
|---|---|
| 2009 | On 17 May, MINECRAFT in cobblestone blocks on Persson's blog |
| 2010 | The logo appears inside the game from January |
| 2011 | Beta 1.4 brings hand-drawn stone lettering with the creeper in the A |
| 2017 | The PC game becomes Java Edition, and the logo gains a subtitle |
| 2020 | The grey letters lightened and given a thick outline |
| 2021 | On 31 August, a flat version for the franchise |
| 2023 | The in-game logo redrawn for version 1.20 |
Persson's first versions of the game, in May 2009, were called Cave Game. The blog was The Word of Notch, and a brighter version with a shadow went on the minecraft.net home page within days.
In Alpha v1.0.4 the cobblestone became smooth stone, and the letters dropped into place in a short animation. Beta 1.8 retouched the 2011 lettering slightly. That design was used for the full release, version 1.0, on 18 November 2011.
From 1.0 the game also hid a joke: on rare occasions the title screen spells the name "Minceraft". From 2021 the detailed logo has stayed in the game while the flat one represents the franchise.
The studio behind it changed name too. On 17 May 2020, Minecraft's 11th birthday, Mojang became Mojang Studios with a new studio logo by the agency Bold.
Minecraft and Other Building Toys
Building with small blocks gives Minecraft something in common with toy bricks; see the LEGO logo. For other game brands with famous characters, compare the Nintendo logo and the Pokémon logo.
For more brands like Minecraft, browse our gaming logos.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is there a creeper in the Minecraft logo?
The face in the A belongs to the creeper, one of the game's monsters, and it has been part of the stone lettering since Beta 1.4 in 2011.
What is the Minceraft logo?
A rare joke version of the title screen, added in version 1.0, that spells the name "Minceraft".
What was Minecraft called before Minecraft?
Cave Game. Markus Persson renamed it Minecraft in May 2009.
Who owns Minecraft?
Mojang Studios, the Stockholm studio that Microsoft bought in 2014.