Taiwan unveils 2025 National Day logo

Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) A government planning committee on Tuesday unveiled the official logo for its 2025 National Day celebrations, set for Oct. 10.

The emblem, shared on Facebook by the National Day Preparation Committee, features two Chinese characters for "10" (shí, 十) joined together in the colors of the national flag -- red, blue and white -- with a brush-stroke texture.

Beneath the design, the Chinese text "Republic of China" and "Happy Birthday" flank the national flag, alongside the English slogan "A Beautiful Taiwan Today, A Better Taiwan Tomorrow," both carried over from the 2024 design.

The release drew mixed reactions online, with some netizens calling the logo "depressing" and "ugly," while others praised it as a "great design" with an "elegant" shade of gray.

Deputy Interior Minister Wu Tang-an (吳堂安), secretary-general of the committee, said the subdued Morandi color palette was chosen to convey "steadiness and maturity," in contrast to the brighter tones of previous years.

He added that the brush-painting motif symbolizes creativity and evokes a flying flag, highlighting Taiwan's "diversity, freedom and confidence."

Unlike last year's design, the new emblem omits the plum blossom element introduced under Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), who became chairman of the preparation committee after his party, the main opposition Kuomintang, won the most seats in the Legislature in 2024.