It's one of the most famous logos in Hollywood history.
Now, the designer behind the Star Wars motif has revealed how it was inspired, in part, by Nazi signage.
Star Wars creator George Lucas wanted the movie's logo be "very fascist" and "intimidating", according to designer, Suzy Rice.
Rice - who worked at an ad agency - was tasked with creating the Star Wars logo by Lucas, who had already rejected a string of drafts by other designers.
Rice said Lucas wanted the logo to be "something that is very fascist," that would "be intimidating," and "rival AT&T", according to The Hollywood Reporter.
She used the font Helvetica Black, after reading a book about the Nazi propaganda used by war criminal Joseph Goebbels.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was accused of having political undertones when one of its writers tweeted about president-elect Donald Trump.
"Please note that the Empire is a white supremacist (human) organisation," Chris Weitz tweeted (and since deleted), according to The Hollywood Reporter, prompting the hashtag #DumpStarWars.
Disney chief executive Bob Iger insisted Rogue One "is not a film that is, in any way, a political film," vulture.com reports.
The revelations come after Rogue One dominated the global box office, opening to a $US135.5 million outside of American and capturing first place in all of the markets in which it played.
But Rice has her own take on it.
"If there's any similarity from this Rogue One activity to the present, politically, it is simpatico with the Anonymous/WikiLeaks obtaining leaked documentation from U.S. political parties and making available to the public some quite grotesque correspondence among Democrats," she told The Hollywood Reporter.
"At no point, however, have I ever viewed the SW literary canon to be a comment on any phase or time in U.S. political history."
The Australian site cited a 'heightened threat level' as the issue.