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The original is objectively better. There’s a lesson in here somewhere on why you shouldn’t make design decisions a public matter.
by timdeneau 10y ago
The original is objectively better.
There’s a lesson in here somewhere on why you shouldn’t make design decisions a public matter.
- MichaelGG 10y agoWhy is a graphic of a dinosaur objectively better?
- gcp 10y agoBecause they went extinct, duh! Wait a minute...
- ufo 10y agoI starter living the dinosaur a bit more when I learned about its history https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...
- jwilk 10y agoPro-tip: don't click on this link. Instead, copy the URL and paste it into location bar.
- kuschku 10y agoHonestly, @dang, can we enforce that all links to jwz go through archive.org? Then everyone could see the content, jwz wouldn’t get the unwanted traffic, and people wouldn’t have to deal with "why did you just have a NSFW image open at work"
- narag 10y agoWould anybody mind to share the background story on this?
- timdeneau 10y agoNow there’s a good story.
- timdeneau 10y agoI should clarify, the logotype “mozilla” and not necessarily the dino logomark. The original is more legible, less cryptic. They also based their new typeface Fira Sans off that original logotype, which is what they use to brand Firefox. So they also fragment that brand association.
- kaosjester 10y agoThis applies to more than just logos. So much design, when turned into a public matter, suffers.
- nneonneo 10y agoI think you meant "subjectively" - if it were objectively better then you could surely provide some evidence! I for one like the new logo - it's less staid, a bit more playful, and more indicative of Mozilla than the previous one (which was just the name rendered in some font). But that's a subjective opinion, and I'm not going to pretend there's an objective truth to it.