• @FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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    491 year ago

    The new reddit one is so fucking weird to look at.

    It makes the snoo a little too human, I get uncanny valley vibes from it.

    The Firefox logo is great though. It’s not over simplification. It’s just keeping up with the times and doing a great job of it IMO.

    • @fidodo@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      I like it too, the old one was too detailed which makes it stand out too much. Icons need to work in a lot of contexts so simpler is almost always better.

      • @accideath@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        The old one was great – in the context of late 00s to early 2010s design philosophy. It fit right in with Apple‘s skeumorphic design language and Microsofts Aero design. The new one is the perfect answer to the modern, more minimalist design. (Although I’m glad we’re mostly out of the "flat“ design era of Windows Metro and similar UIs)

        • @fidodo@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          That’s true, it fit in with the trends of the time. I guess part of my feeling is that I never actually liked skeumorphic design so I’ve been happy that flat caught on. There was a period where it did get too flat, but I like the middle ground we’re at now.

    • @Ross_audio@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      I’d be happiest with the simple one in the old colours.

      Orange and blue look way better to me than light orange and purple.

    • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      I think most actually like it more, it’s just people are a lot more likely to come online and make posts if they dislike something.

    • @bi_tux@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      personally I think it’s not bad, but I still haven’t gotten used yo it

      tbh it smh feels like they just changed it a month ago, idk when they actually changed it

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      171 year ago

      The new logo looks sleek and nice, but I personally just really like more complex logos.

      • @fidodo@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        You might like them in isolation but icons need to exist in a lot of uis and contexts so having an overly detailed one will make it look weird when juxtaposed with what’s around it.

  • @gerryflap@feddit.nl
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    31 year ago

    I mean, idk. In my opinion both new icons are better. The old Reddit icon looks flat, empty and unprofessional next to new one to my eyes. Not that I really care since Reddit is dead to me.

    • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      The antenna thing almost touching the edge on the old one makes it kinda look off-centre, as if it was haphazardly thrown together by someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing.

      The new one definitely looks better. To bad the platform itself is still shit.

      • @MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        Apostrophy for possessive is OK. Iirc, it’s just uncommon on “it’s” solely to differentiate between “it is”. I know for a fact this is what I was taught in college and still have the English book. Some teachers and books written by those teachers pretend there never was a hard rule for possessive apostrophies.

        For example, the AP styling guide says do not add an extra ‘s’ for singular possessive when the word already ends in s or z, but traditional English rules say do it.

        • @PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi
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          41 year ago

          Yeah, it gets complicated when formal rules can just be made up. I had a group of professors who published a little sheet saying, “These are the ways we like it, but unless it’s truly horrendous, you aren’t getting knocked for it.” Their rule was something along the lines of pre-Roman fall, names that ended in -s don’t get an extra ‘s, but afterwards they do. So Jesus’, but Aquinas’s… /shrug

          • JackbyDev
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            11 year ago

            Let’s talk about the real issue, how do I make proper boundaries that are singular and possessive plural? Imagine a restauranted Pop’s. Is it Pop’ses?

  • Farid
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    1541 year ago

    That Firefox logo was simplified, but not oversimplified. Even with a very small icon size you can still tell it’s a fox that is (on?) fire. The Firefox Family logo is oversimplified, just being a swoosh, basically.

    • voxel
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      161 year ago

      well the family logo is supposed to be as simple as possible

    • @bleistift2@feddit.de
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      -491 year ago

      I beg to differ. Until now I never noticed the fox in the logo. And even now that I know it’s there I have a hard time finding it. And I’m looking at a version of almost 1cm on my screen.

      • Farid
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        Well, I suppose it makes sense that it doesn’t apply to everyone, but my guess is that the majority can still see the fox.
        Either way, the simplification of modern logos is a necessity, because they are used in small UI elements, often even appearing monochrome. At which point they still need to be recognizable. Whether they are simplified in a good or bad way, is subjective though.

  • @9up999@lemmy.ml
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    Firefox logo looks like shit but so do material design in general. Everything for toddlers and Karens.