Pink is a very feminine colour in Britain - but not other countries - so it would be difficult to use as a prominent colour in any TV channel in Britain not aimed at a female audience apart from one for gays.
Thank you for clarifying pink as the official 'colour for gays' (although I must make sure not to confuse it with 'crushed strawberry' or any other non-conventional shade of pink).
You've just thrown a new light on iPlayer and BBC Three...
iPlayer isn't a TV channel. BBC Three is close to crushed strawberry. It's not 'conventional' pink.
Apologies for misinterpreting you due to my lack of differentiation of pink and crushed strawberry.
Although, coming from the straight male part of the UK population, my lack of knowing the difference probably disproves your point anyway... *begins hunt for straight male who describes the BBC three logo colour as crushed strawberry*
*begins hunt for
straight male
who describes the BBC three logo colour as crushed strawberry*
If you replaced the highlighted words in the above sentence with the words "anybody whatsoever (other than Riaz)", then it'd be an equally futile endeavour...
There is a slight ambiguity in the original question. This could mean the best logo during the time it was used or the best logo from today's perspective.
The logos I found particularly eye catching during and shortly after they were used are those for Anglia with the triangles, TSW, ATV, TV-AM, and the Thames inverted triangle.
ATV was quite a well recognised logo nationally until the early 1990s because ATV produced a large number of ITV Schools programmes.
The Border Television logo used from 1969 to 1989 was a very rare sight outside of its region but many children from the 1980s recognise it because it was shown at the end of BMX Beat. IMO it was the blandest logo at the time that hadn't even properly made it into the colour era let alone the CGI era.
I found the Meridian logo a bit controversial a design even to this day but I could be influenced by (the loss of) TVS.
My favourite logo was the Yorkshire chevron and the Central Cake, the ytv chevron because it was simplistic but perfectly described what YTV were about, they made really imaginative use of the chevron in the late 80s, the central cake was absolutely brilliant it's a shame I didn't live in the region, it was a tv forumers dream to live in a region where presentation was very much thought about.
I have to say that I was impressed by the overall style and presentation of Central during the 1980s and early 90s. HTV appeared to be struggling from the presentation perspective during this period until they were revamped after winning the franchise in 1991. The HTV logo that vaguely resembles a TV aerial (was this intended by the designer?) was probably quite ingenius in the 1970s but by the mid 1980s it was beginning to look dated and dull - certainly compared to the offerings of TSW, TVS, and Central. I was verbally informed by a resident of Bath in the late 1990s that viewers close to the HTV boundary tended to prefer the alternative ITV company back then...
