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Does anyone else notice the striking similarity between the new Enterprise design and Bootstrap? I guess that's what you get when you hire Mark Otto. https://enterprise.github.com/ http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
Does anyone else notice the striking similarity between the new Enterprise design and Bootstrap? I guess that's what you get when you hire Mark Otto. https://enterprise.github.com/ http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
They built the page with Bootstrap. Almost all the CSS classes are provided by it. What's wrong with that?
Penta-cat, they must mean.
Or Tentaclecat
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Can you explain on why you think the new Github homepage imitates Dropbox's homepage? They both look pretty standard to me.
-Very similar logotype -Signup form on the right, with huge signup button -Tons of whitespace w/ 'floating' elements -Footer styled very similar -Same location on the page and method of promoting their paid product -etc
That...thing...doesn't really do much for me as far as a corporate logo goes. Rather complex shape (see references to scaling problems), sorta catish but not, WTH is that weird tail (cat, four legs and a...), this post is the first reference to "octo" I've seen in the months I've used the service, there's 5 limbs not 8, etc. Makes me think of a little kid in a Halloween costume.
"Github" name works fine. "Git" spoofs "get" a la archiving, "hub" is central connector/repository, concatenated the name just rolls off the tongue and instantly works as a coined term. Rendered in a nice unique font, great. But then there's that creature...
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Can you explain on why you think the new Github homepage imitates Dropbox's homepage? They both look pretty standard to me.
-Very similar logotype -Signup form on the right, with huge signup button -Tons of whitespace w/ 'floating' elements -Footer styled very similar -Same location on the page and method of promoting their paid product -etc
oh dear. I may be reading too much between the lines, but thy post, and the logo-page, are corporate, goal driven projects (maybe top down) that are then wrapped up in nice fluffy words. Its not the same as nice fluffy ideas, getting thrown out and tested, with maybe as much attention from lawyers as aspell. Of course it happens, but this is the time github went from that nice sparky startup, to the long slide into c…
Yeah, maybe a little.
What's the story behind Octocat? That...thing...doesn't really do much for me as far as a corporate logo goes. Rather complex shape (see references to scaling problems), sorta catish but not, WTH is that weird tail (cat, four legs and a...), this post is the first reference to "octo" I've seen in the months I've used the service, there's 5 limbs not 8, etc. Makes me think of a little kid in a Halloween costume. "Gith…
I've always figured it fits because: 1) The internet likes cats. 2) Git can do octopus merges I guess?
When the Octocat Mark is rendered at any size less than 75x75 pixels, it's pretty much impossible to tell that the "tail" of the cat is actually a tentacle. That's unfortunate, because on https://github.com/logos the only recommended use for the mark is in social buttons, which are going to be relatively small. Even at larger sizes, the tentacle just seems tacked on.