Harbor Freight Tools Logo Vector

About Harbor Freight

Harbor Freight or Harbor Freight Tools is a private retailer company that manufactures equipment and tools. Its headquarters is in Calabasas, California, United States. It operates different chain of stores along with e-commerce businesses and mail orders. More than 1300 stores located in more than 48 states. It was founded in 1977 by Eric Smidt. It employs 25000 employees that work around the United States. In 2021, the company made a profit of 6.5 billion dollars. The company was started by Eric and his father Allan Smidt. Before Harbor Freight, the company was called Harbor Freight Salvage.

Meaning and History of Harbor Freight Logo

There are so many people who want to take matters in their own hands; we are talking about home repairs and maintenance. As the economy gets dips off and on, the service providers charge more and more and that is why there are companies like Harbor Freight that provide top-class tools. The company changed their logo 4 times in the following years.

• 1977
• 1980
• 1985
• 1991

Evolution of Harbor Freight Logo

The company manufactures almost all necessary tools from power tools to hand tools and air tools and from compressors to tool storages and organizers and such. Every family person mostly men like to keep a handy tool set that they adore for some unknown reason even if they never use it. The company changed their logo in the following ways.

1977

            In this year, the logo had HARBOR FREIGHT TOOLS written on top. Under FREIGHT, USA was written and on left right of USA, there are blue large ships facing USA. Below it is a yellow line and below it, the text says ‘America’s Favorite Tool Store’, this text was italicized.

1980

            In this year, the logo is a rectangle with a navy-blue outline and in the rectangle HARBOR FREIGHT is written on top and TOOLS is written below them. The large ships are facing TOOLS. [caption id="attachment_68816" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 1980 Harbor Freight logo[/caption]

1985

            In this year, there is a text ‘HARBOR FREIGHT TOOLS’ and below it, there is a rectangle and in it, the text says ‘Quality Tools at Ridiculously Low Prices. [caption id="attachment_68817" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 1985 Harbor Logo[/caption]

1991

In this year, the logo is the same but the text in the rectangle says ‘QUALITY TOOLS LOWEST PRICES’ there is a gap between TOOLS and LOWEST words. [caption id="attachment_68818" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 1991 Harbor logo[/caption]

Building of Harbor Freight Logo

Harbor Freight has served more than 90 million customers and according to company stats, 90% of them revert back and refer as well. A tool is bought for life unless one misplaces it but tools are very handy in case of house emergencies. The company’s logo is based on the following two things.

Font

            In all the years, red, white and blue color was used.

Color

            In all the years, bold Calibri Body font was used.

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Conclusion

We liked the logo where there are ships in it but we also don’t understand why there were ships in the first place. The rest of the logos are fine as the company soon became a brand, they opted for minimalization.