Diet Coke's signature silver can is going to be mostly red from now on

Diet Coke is getting a new look.
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Everybody knows that the way to differentiate between Diet Coke and full-sugar Coke is by looking at the color of the can — for as long as Diet Coke has been around, it has been branded with a signature silver design while the original Coca-Cola flavor has been sold in a classic all-red can.

Confusingly, that won't be true for much longer. In an effort to "use one visual identity system," Coca-Cola will be putting a large red circle on all of its cans beginning in May in Mexico and rolling out across the rest of the world throughout 2016 and 2017, BuzzFeed reports.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.