Brand at a glance
Explore Ferrari’s distinctive extended-F wordmark and understand how it differs from the Prancing Horse racing and road-car badges.
Wordmark reference showing the elongated F. This is lettering artwork, not the Prancing Horse badge.
Source: Wikimedia Commons artwork record: Ferrari wordmark.svg
The Ferrari wordmark stretches the top of its capital F across the remaining letters. That long horizontal stroke ties the name together and gives a short surname an immediately distinctive silhouette. The serif forms add weight and contrast beneath it.
Ferrari’s official history records the Prancing Horse emblem’s debut on Scuderia Ferrari cars in 1932. The wordmark reproduced on this page is not that original racing emblem. Distinguishing the lettering from the horse, shield, and rectangular badge avoids assigning one logo’s history to a different graphic.
The black artwork shown here makes the proportions easier to examine without an automobile, flag, or colored shield around it. This entry documents the wordmark as a component of Ferrari’s identity. It does not claim that the exact drawing has been unchanged since the first racing badge, or assign an unsupported introduction year.
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Company reference. Individual artwork records are linked below each image. Undated entries are labeled explicitly; this is a documented selection, not a claim to reproduce every historical variant.
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