With the new name Apmato for our online self-service app creation system comes the need to find a new logo. We took inspiration from the name: Apmato should sound like something of App and machinery or automatic system. But in fact “mato” is a Japanese word 的 for ”target” or goal. So the real meaning of the name Apmato is to have an App as your target … :-)
Mato is actually the target used for archery. Wikipedia has very nice pictures of “Mato”. There are two different ones used: Hoshi-Mato (星的) and Kasumi-Mato (霞的).
Apmato – the mato for apps
Kasumi-Mato und Hoshi-Mato
Now you can find the two "mato" disks (one for short and one for long distance) in our new logo:
Apmato logo
It works good on dark backgrounds.
Dark background
There is an alternative more compact version of the logo as well.
Compact version with dark background
Compact version with light background