Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)

I've noticed this loss of creativity and personality before. It's very noticeably in building architecture. Now it's taken over web architecture. All websites and logos starting to look the same-ish.

Re: Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)

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Post by quirino » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 11:27 AM UTC

There's this great blog for Logo changes:

https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

You have to subscribe to read the articles now, but just looking at the thumbnails is fun enough

Re: Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)

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Post by nvoeiah » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 11:29 AM UTC

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Re: Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 11:32 AM UTC

dustedcodes wrote: post #5

I've noticed this loss of creativity and personality before. It's very noticeably in building architecture. Now it's taken over web architecture. All websites and logos starting to look the same-ish.

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Re: Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)

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Post by Adverblessly » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 11:39 AM UTC

The explanation I heard for the simplified logo fonts is that they want something that reads well on tiny phone screens.

Re: Why do everyone's logo fonts look the same? (2020)

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 11:40 AM UTC

taspeotis wrote: post #2

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Please don't post only a link with no context or commentary. HackerNews reliably downvotes this.