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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.
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Makes sense.
Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he’s saved, so while he was still focused on the “X” idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, “Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!”
Thus are decisions made by the world’s richest teenage edgelord.
It’s well known that X is the edgiest letter.
Pssh, Z is the ultimate ending.
I didn’t know Slayers X was about Elon Musk.
H has just as many edges 🤔🤔🤔
Yeah, but they’re not razor edges like X!
E has more
I count 12, same as X and H, W has 13 tho
W has more edges, therefore I’m claiming W.com as a social media site only for the most reactionary right wing chuds.
Dude doesn’t even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he’d pay for fonts or creative work?
Let me get this straight; you actually think Elon Musk, himself, combed through images he personally saved, found the X, and personally submitted it as the logo replacement.
Elon Musk. The crazy douche billionaire. You really think he sat at his computer and spent time doing that.
You don’t think, maybe, just maybe, a man with more money than God might have gotten someone else to do it? I can see him being out of touch and not caring enough about quality to say “go with that one” without checking where it came from. But I just can’t see Musk himself looking through fonts to find an “X” that he likes.
looking through fonts to find an “X” he likes
So… you didn’t read the OP.
Yes though - I really do believe that he personally chose it, or more likely already had it in mind.
And then he played some Diablo IV, then jerked off, then played some more Diablo IV.
Yes. Yes I do.
It’s literally just a Unicode character.
From elsewhere:
𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”
So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?
That’s a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.
Fonts are definitely subject to copyright. That’s why there are open fonts and why not all of the fonts on windows are just thrown into Linux for compatibility.
Edit: forgot to finish with that the inverse is also true. If that X is indistinguishable from something copylefted or public domain then he will be facing a lot of trouble trying to copyright it.
The thing is, fonts are copyrightable but typefaces aren’t. Typefaces are the symbols, fonts are the files that contain all the symbols along with the formatting and everything else that let you use the typefaces in software. So he probably can’t copyright the symbol itself and it’s doubtful he could get a trademark on it either. But at the same time, copyright is also weird in that if he made an image and had that X in it, he would have the copyright to that specific image. But that’s only insomuch as anyone else would also own the copyright of an image they made with the stupid X in it.
That’s my point. If he used a copyrighted/copylefted font, he might be in trouble. But he doesn’t get in trouble just for using an unicode character.
Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.
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yes please! i would pay for the chance of having more confused twitter users!
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English1•2 years ago
So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?
You have to start with a 40 billion dollar company if you want a billion dollar company using Musk’s methods.
As a graphic designer, I knew at a glance that nobody was paid to make that stupid “x”.
If a client as big as Twitter asked me for an X logo I’d be so fucking depressed. It would be such a pain to make a proper logo like that without looking exactly like a dozen other ones, because it’s hack and has been done to death.
The X everything app is literally some high school composition notebook doodle shit Elon has been clinging to for over 20 years. He’s like the dad from the movie Holes that thinks he’s a great inventor, but just keeps catching the house on fire and stinking up the place.
His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.
He has achieved nothing.
I was just thinking about all the websites that have the Facebook logo, the Instagram logo, and the Twitter logo on their pages. That’s just supposed to be an X now?
Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.
They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦♂️
For me it’s just the Jagex logo!
- fugepe ( @fugepe@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 years ago
Who gives a fuck.
This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.
Ohhhh, you got him now!! Surely this will make the people turn against him! 🙄
I mean, it’s less about that and more about just calling out how stupid many of his decisions have been. What’s wrong with pointing out stupid shit someone does in full view of the public like this?
Seems pretty fair since Musk is behaving like a douchebag
Edit: This was meant to be posted as a reply in a comment chain.
I fucking knew it. Something told me there was no way he hired an actual designer to design shit.
