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- technology@lemmy.ml
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.
negativenull ( @negativenull@negativenull.com ) English69•11 months agoMusk’s logo for “X” is literally just Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).
Which means that #Musk can’t trademark the logo. FlowVoid ( @FlowVoid@midwest.social ) English23•11 months agoThe good news is that “x com” can be trademarked.
The bad news is that “x com” is already trademarked.
marco ( @marco@beehaw.org ) English11•11 months ago- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
“I’m losing control of the situation!!!” —Elon Musk, probably
koper ( @koper@feddit.nl ) English23•11 months agoThat’s not accurate. Copyright and trademark are two different things. The name “twitter” is also just a combination of preexisting characters and the word was probably in use before the company was founded. You can still trademark existing things because trademarks are about preventing consumer confusion, not protecting original creations.
Musk does have a problem with copyright if it turns out this specific design was made by someone else.
FlowVoid ( @FlowVoid@midwest.social ) English32•11 months agoThe US Patent and Trademark Office is generally reluctant to enforce single-letter trademarks, and some countries ban them outright.
helpimnotdrowning ( @helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.org ) English61•11 months agoNot to defend musk, but it’s not from one specific font. The logo is just Unicode char 1D54F, a blackboard bold X/“MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X”
pyr0ball ( @pyr0ball@reddthat.com ) English31•11 months agoLol so he put even less effort into it than we thought
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electromage ( @electromage@lemm.ee ) English28•11 months agoA character is nothing without a font though. When you look at a character on-screen, it’s being rendered in a specific font. Typing that Unicode character in “Special Alphabets 4” produces the image in question.
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English10•11 months agoThe character (𝕏) doesn’t actually doesn’t exist in the font, because supporting arbitrary Unicode characters in every font would be absurd. Paste it into the font preview and it renders a black square.
melroy ( @melroy@kbin.melroy.org ) 7•11 months agoThat is a better source then cross posting from lemmy.ml. Thanks.!
thejml ( @thejml@lemm.ee ) English13•11 months agoDoes Musk even have any “In-house” designers anymore? Figured those were let got with the rest of the teams.
bermuda ( @bermuda@beehaw.org ) English10•11 months agofonts are ridiculously cheap if you’re a billionaire. Musk is stupid, but I doubt he’d be so stupid he didn’t pay the like $200 fee.
SafetyGoggles ( @SafetyGoggles@feddit.de ) English11•11 months agoYou’d be surprised
nzodd ( @nzodd@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months agoIf your font has the potential to be made into a logo, you would think the designer would have the sense to negotiate a higher rate. I have no idea if that’s how it is in practice, but to do otherwise seems quite foolish.