So... the Realm Awoken logo

[Linadae]

It reminds me of the lettering in the original Doom game.

Reminds me of the font WoW used to use for major patches back in Burning Crusade.

[Felis]

That logo looks like it came straight from 2003.

It is intended.
But it should look older than 2003

Then you set out to design the logo?

Yoshida: We had to ask Minagawa to hurry (laughs). I had to apologize that I gave him very little time (laughs).

Spoiler:

(Laughs) Although the logo follows the original design, the font and color is very different.

Yoshida: For the font, we plan to change it with each patch. Since an air of unrest is arriving in Eorzea and the battles will be very intense, we chose a font which reflected that. Unlike the traditional FF series logos, we wanted people to instantly see a difference when comparing the different logos side by side.

Seems like a bit of nostalgia is built into the design also.

Yoshida: Yeah, I asked for it to look a bit like something of a 1980s or 1990s rock band, so that was intentional (laughs).

You intentionally chose the design in a rock band style?

Yoshida: I wanted it to look different from other things that we've seen recently, so that even as a web banner it would be a very different image from others.