cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2399016

Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.

  • Z4rK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Okay but could you not cross post to 10 communities or something? I hoped to leave that behind at Reddit.

    • li10@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Not sure why you hoped to leave that behind with Reddit.

      Was always bound to be more of a problem here given the way Lemmy works.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        Also not sure what’s wrong about posting something that’s relevant to multiple communities to those multiple communities

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          1 year ago

          It means people see the same post over and over because they’ve subscribed to multiple related communities. Nobody’s doing anything wrong but the effect is really annoying. Probably the real solution is for clients to be smarter about displaying redundant posts.

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            1 year ago

            Not everyone is subscribed to all of those communities though. I just checked which ones they were posted to and I’m only part of this one. I would not have seen it if it wasn’t crossposted here

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    1 year ago

    The logo is pretty unimaginative. Claiming it’s plagiarism from this stylized font is a thin accusation.

    An X has probably been imagined in thousands of ways by font creators, art students or kids doing graffiti in the hallway.

    Also. Fuck Musk…

  • ultratiem @lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What “inspired by”, buddy literally just jacked that X from the font. What a company boy…

    PS: FWIW, Musk says that’s the “interim” logo (lol).

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    1 year ago

    I’ve read many times that letter shapes aren’t subject to copyright in the US (or, as far as I know, most other countries) but font names can be trademarked. That’s why you can get freeware knockoffs of a lot of popular fonts where everything but the name is identical to the real thing.

  • chrischryse@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So for Elons new logo I have a theory for the design.

    How can you appeal to your base without starting controversy with those who hate you?

    Well….

    Again this is only a theory

  • STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    who fucking cares? dumb guy rebrands with a shitty logo. i have heard about this 14 times already. this isn’t related to technology