DocuSign is the name of a popular digital signature service created in 2003 in San Francisco, California. The service allows you to upload, send for signature, review, sign, and track the status of documents. Today the company has hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.
DocuSign can handle both facsimile and digital signatures. Both are accepted by official agencies and are considered perfectly legitimate in most countries. Digital document signing has recently gained incredible popularity on a global scale, as many governmental services across the globe have gone online.
the service allows you to upload documents, put your pre-generated signature on them, send documents to other people to sign, and monitor the status of the document: when it is signed, by whom, and so on. The service can be used both on the website and via mobile applications (available for both iOS and Android).
DocuSign provides its users a trial-free period of 30 days so that they had time to decide, whether the service is useful and convenient for them, after the trial period is over, one has a choice whether to switch to another service, or to get a DocuSign subscription.
The service is absolutely secure and users can feel safe and protected, by signing documents via DocuSign, as its security is certified following the ISO 27001 standard.
What is DocuSign?
DocuSign is an online tool, which allows you to sign documents with a digital or facsimile signature. The service was created in 2003, and by today has gained hundreds of millions of users and about a million customers all over the globe.
As for the visual identity, since the day of the company’s foundation in 2003, there was only one major logo redesign of the software, but both of the versions, created for DocuSign throughout the years, are very modest and clean, which is a representation of the service’s convenience and simplicity.
The original DocuSign visual identity, designed in 2003, was composed of a two-styled lettering in black and blue, with the blue cursive part underlined by a thin black dotted line. The first, “Docu” part of the logotype was set in a bold serif font with extended geometric characters, while the blue letters of the cursive “Sing” were slanted to the right and had their contours narrower.
The redesign of 2005 has shortened the black dotted line and enlarged both parts of the inscription. Also, the bold black characters of “Docu” were not as extended as in the previous version and more, and the blue cursive “Sign” was now the main accent of the composition. The badge stayed in use for six years without any changes.
In 2011 the color palette of the DocuSign logo was changed and both black elements — the “Docu” part of the wordmark and the dotted light under the “Sign” — turned green, while the elegant cursive was now set in black. However, this logo variant only stayed active for several months.
The original DocuSign logo, designed in 2003, started with the company for more than 15 years. It was a laconic blue and black composition with two parts of the software’s name written in one line, using two different typefaces. The “Docu” was set in blue color, with its bold letters executed in a modern sans-serif, while the “Sign” was set in black, underlined by a black dashed line, and written in a sleek cursive.
The redesign of 2019 made the badge of the service even simpler. Now the logo is composed of a white logotype set on a solid black square. The inscription is set in the title case, with “D” and “S” capitalized, and the two parts of the software’s name placed with no extra space between them. The DocuSign logotype is executed in a modern sans-serif typeface, which is very similar to such well-known fonts as Neue Haas Grotesk Display 65 Medium and Europa Grotesk Nr 2 SH Bold.
A completely new concept for the DocuSign visual identity was introduced in 2024. The black lettering is now written in the lowercase of a modern yet still elegant sans-serif typeface, while the emblem with an arrow is replaced by two semi-transparent elements in red and blue, where the red one has the shape of the letter “D” and the red square stands for a document, which can easily be signed in the application.