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It seems that GitHub wants a more "serious" look. I wonder why that is. Do managers dismiss GitHub for Enterprise as a possibility because it feels hackish/unprofessional?
I think it's not that they want to be more "serious" but more they didn't want the logotype to look like the first idea a college kid had. The type was so terrible on it.
The new logotype looks great. The capitalization is a non-issue in the long term, it doesn't matter if people continue calling it lowercase git. I have qualms about the Octocat mark though. Everyone wants to be Apple and drop their name in favor of a recognizable logo. What people forget is that the logo for Apple is actually an apple. That's what made it so easy for Apple to adopt this strategy early on. The same ap…
The homepage now looks very bland. Perhaps to people who really know typography the GitHub name is very distinct, but to me it doesn't distinguish itself and reminds me of a bootstrap site with a couple hours of tweaking more than a unique and memorable brand / style.
The new logotype looks great. The capitalization is a non-issue in the long term, it doesn't matter if people continue calling it lowercase git. I have qualms about the Octocat mark though. Everyone wants to be Apple and drop their name in favor of a recognizable logo. What people forget is that the logo for Apple is actually an apple. That's what made it so easy for Apple to adopt this strategy early on. The same ap…
The original Apple logo was doubly clever, as it referred to both of Newton's important contributions to physics (gravity and prismatic separation of light).
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The original Apple logo was doubly clever, as it referred to both of Newton's important contributions to physics (gravity and prismatic separation of light).
Funny. I never thought about it and just assumed it was a hidden wink to Adam and Eve eating an apple from the tree of knowledge .
Old : http://drupal.org/files/images/gist.png
New : https://gist.github.com/assets/modules/header/github-gist-lo...
The new logotype looks great. The capitalization is a non-issue in the long term, it doesn't matter if people continue calling it lowercase git. I have qualms about the Octocat mark though. Everyone wants to be Apple and drop their name in favor of a recognizable logo. What people forget is that the logo for Apple is actually an apple. That's what made it so easy for Apple to adopt this strategy early on. The same ap…
The original Apple logo was doubly clever, as it referred to both of Newton's important contributions to physics (gravity and prismatic separation of light).
But it turns out to be only a coincidence.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Recognition_and_tr...)
