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Re: New GitHub Logo

#101
post #5

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.

I think it just looks more modern, and less '2007'.

Re: New GitHub Logo

#102
post #26

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).

Re: New GitHub Logo

#104

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 lower-case "g" looked too much like Google's:

http://designmoo.com/3466/github-icons/

Re: New GitHub Logo

#106
post #26

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).

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.

Re: New GitHub Logo

#108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

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Re: New GitHub Logo

#110
post #26

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).

There is also a story saying that it was a reference to Alan Turing, who committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple following a forced hormonal treatment after being convicted of the "crime" of homosexuality.

But it turns out to be only a coincidence.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Recognition_and_tr...)

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