#jumpstart logos

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The JumpStart series has arguably had three main logos when it comes to representing the series as a whole. The first of these was for the very first game, JumpStart Kindergarten (1994), and while it was only used for that one game, it could still be considered to represent the series as a whole, at least at that time (top). The second logo, consisting yellow letters within a red arch, was used from 1995-2011. The third logo, consisting of a blue letters with a yellow arch beneath them, was used from 2011 to 2023. Although these logos differ in many ways, what they all have in common is the prescence of a star where the words "jump" and "start" meet, and the usage of the colors blue and yellow.

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A comparison of the JumpStart World, JumpStart World of Learning, and JumpStart 3D Virtual World logos, which were used for the same series of games at different points.

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Most JumpStart games feature just one logo (barring re-releases), which displays the game's title and is typically used for the title screen and box art. JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island is somewhat unique in that there are at least two variations of the logo: the normal version, which was used for box art and promotional material (top) and a "spooky" version, which only appears in the game's title screen sequence (bottom).

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In 2011, JumpStart recieved an updated logo, consisting of blocky blue text with a yellow arch below and a yellow star above (top). This logo was created by Amy Shimoshige, a 2D artist who worked at JumpStart from 2011-2015. She shared some other earlier concepts for logos, seen in the bottom two images here, which give some insight into the development process. Notably, all of the unused logo concepts incorporate the color red in some way, which is more consistent with JumpStart's previous logos, which all featured a red/yellow/blue color scheme.

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Around the late 90s/early 2000s, French releases of JumpStart games used a logo that featured the French series name (La Famille Coup de Pouce) on a yellow banner with the characters Frankie, CJ, Hopsalot, Casey, and Edison around it (top). For whatever reason, only the image of Casey seems to be oddly stretched, at least when compared to his normal appearance for this era's art style, which is included in the bottom right for comparison.

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There exists an early unused logo for JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade (top). It appears largely identical to the logo used for JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade (bottom left), while the final version of the JumpStart 5th Grade logo has numerous differences in font, styling and shading of the logo (bottom right). Incidentally, the unused logo for JumpStart 5th Grade doesn't appear in the game itself, but is hidden in the files of a totally different game, JumpStart Math for Second Graders.

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The majority of JumpStart games released before 2011 used some variation of a yellow ruler and a red arch for their logos. Among these, the logo for the very first JumpStart game, JumpStart Kindergarten (1994), is distinct for having a noticeably more sketchy style overall, which was never replicated for any other game.