Haldiram’s, drawn from memory
We asked our readers to draw the Haldiram’s logo without looking. These are their drawings.
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What our readers remembered of Haldiram’s

The hardest of the ten. 56% drew it in red and 26% added yellow, but the HR emblem that sits on top appears in just 4% of drawings.

56%drew it in red

26%added yellow

4%drew the little HR emblem on top

Honourable mentions

Not close, but memorable.

A reader’s drawing for Haldiram’s: Just the HR monogram
Just the HR monogram
A reader’s drawing for Haldiram’s: An H on a gold-rimmed maroon oval
An H on a gold-rimmed maroon oval
A reader’s drawing for Haldiram’s: A brown oval
A brown oval
A reader’s drawing for Haldiram’s: Haldiram’s, Nagpur: the HR emblem and the home town
Haldiram’s, Nagpur: the HR emblem and the home town

How close they came

Every drawing, sorted into one of seven groups. 10% nailed it or came close.

  • Close10%
  • Half-remembered51%
  • Just the name21%
  • Something else7%
  • Drew a picture<1%
  • Gave up11%

The colours

56% of drawings used the logo’s red. Leaving out black, the default pen, the colours used most were red and yellow.

The real logo
The drawings

By age

Age made little difference here: 11% of drawings by under-25s came close, and 8% by readers 25 and over. Older readers were more likely to write just the name: 28% of their drawings, against 18%.

Came closeJust the name
Under 25160 drawings
11%18%
25 and over109 drawings
8%28%

Shares are of all 282 drawings of Haldiram’s, including blank ones. The image shows 150 of them, picked to cover the whole range. How we judged them → The idea comes from Signs.com’s Branded in Memory.