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

The easiest logo of the ten to picture. 62% of drawings had the keyhole, and 85% were coloured blue. The usual slip was small: 21% drew the keyhole as an outline, when the real one is solid.

62%drew the keyhole

85%coloured it blue

21%drew the keyhole as an outline. The real one is solid

How close they came

Every drawing, sorted into one of seven groups. 55% nailed it or came close.

  • Nailed it35%
  • Close21%
  • Half-remembered13%
  • Just the name27%
  • Something else2%
  • Gave up3%

The colours

85% of drawings used the logo’s blue. Leaving out black, the default pen, the colours used most were blue and sky blue.

The real logo
The drawings

By age

Age made little difference here: 55% of drawings by under-25s came close, and 56% by readers 25 and over. Older readers were more likely to write just the name: 31% of their drawings, against 25%.

Came closeJust the name
Under 25177 drawings
55%25%
25 and over121 drawings
56%31%

Shares are of all 309 drawings of SBI, 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.