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Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by judge2020 »

willis936 wrote: post #50
mthoms wrote: post #10

Firefox Developer Edition logo for comparison: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Fi...

Higher res link: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Firefox_...

While the SVG will scale to any size, Chrome has it very small on my screen and even zooming to 500% (max zoom) is smaller than the linked png.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by saghm »

theclaw wrote: post #65

I’m not sure I’m a fan. It’s like a profile shot of a laughing bulbous head. It says supermarket brand laundry detergent to me.

> It says supermarket brand laundry detergent to me

I didn't think of this before, but I don't think I'll ever be able to unsee this now

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by levythe »

johnpowell wrote: post #43
dpcan wrote: post #31

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I don't agree, other than being blue and having some gradients. The Edge logo looks like an "e", not a fox hugging a globe. The new logo looks good in my opinion. It has earth tones, looks like an "e", has some edges.

This always differs by people. I thought Samsung pretty clearly swiped the Apple look with the early versions of Android. Even beyond the rounded corners. Sure, it isn't a pixel perfect copy. But I do think inspiration was drawn, even if not intentional. I have a bunch of icons in my dock and the only two that look similar are browsers. (I hacked up a copy of the Edge logo from the article and slapped it on a applesc…

These comparisons will be made all over the place, since these designs are always inspiring each other. When I see the new edge logo, I see something that resembles some of the unused branding of the Xbox One and Xbox360, something that resembles the Firefox logo, something that resembles the new design direction of the office suite, something that looks a little like iOS gradients, something that looks a little like the Chrome logo, and so on. I'd say it looks a lot more like old Xbox branding than Firefox branding, though.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by zhte415 »

lousken wrote: post #19
lucideer wrote: post #17

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Yeah, but... the Firefox Browser logo also looks more like a tsunami than a curled up fox... And that's just the browser logo. Let's not get into the Firefox ecosystem logo: http://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/open...

https://i.imgur.com/H5O4ePI.png yup

And flip that horizontally, it's remarkably similar.

Re: Microsoft Reveals New Logo for Microsoft Edge

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Post by the_pwner224 »

wayneftw wrote: post #51

I hope they have as much success with this as they've had with VS Code and I'm looking forward to trying their first release of Edge on Linux. It will be great to have the choice of a non-Google, WebKit based browser from a major distributor who has the resources to keep up with and challenge Google on things like Manifest v3. I find it somewhat ironic that the most used software I'm running on my Linux desktop, VS C…

Falkon is the KDE browser which is WebKit-based and not Google. It works on at least Linux and Windows. I believe the GNOME browser (Epiphany?) is also WebKit-based.
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