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Posted Dec 5, 2024 22:34 UTC (Thu) by excors (subscriber, #95769)In reply to: RIP by Cyberax
Parent article: Mozilla's new branding strategy
It's not meant to be a letter - it's a logo that incorporates an M and represents a flag, and also represents the neck and head of a godzilla if you squint a bit, which is cute. More interesting and distinctive than the black-and-white "m" or "moz://a" they used before, and more readable as an icon than the detailed godzilla-head they used before that.
I like that more than the font, which I feel is hard to read because the descenders are far too short (especially on the 'p' - it looks much too similar to an 'o'). That's mainly a problem in the sample on the blog post, though - the versions used on https://www.mozilla.org/ look almost okay to me.
Posted Dec 5, 2024 22:38 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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I can see the 90-degree rotated "M" now that you pointed it, but I certainly don't see a lizard. On the other hand, if you look at the black part of the logo, it looks like a mad screaming duck.
I honestly can't see how they could have managed a worse logo. At least they haven't touched the Firefox logo.
Posted Dec 5, 2024 23:11 UTC (Thu)
by excors (subscriber, #95769)
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It sounds like you do see it - ducks are dinosaurs, closely related to T. rex (both being theropods), and Mozilla has traditionally used a T. rex interpretation of Godzilla, so they're pretty much the same animal. Just imagine the duck is _really_ mad, and about 100m tall, and radioactive.
Posted Dec 8, 2024 13:42 UTC (Sun)
by sammythesnake (guest, #17693)
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I'm a little surprised that this didn't occur to me before now (and as is so often the case, now is too late to be of use(!)) but it would have been cool to use that as the "scheme" part of the address for settings etc. instead of "chrome://" or "about:/"
A nice subtle joke for a random few nerds who'd spot the reference :-P
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