The latter half of the article is interesting, but the lede about the "G" logo is inane. Any minimalist rendering of a common shape like a letter is going to wi

The latter half of the article is interesting, but the lede about the "G" logo is inane. Any minimalist rendering of a common shape like a letter is going to wind up looking similar to something else. Surely this is self-evident? Incidentally the Tokyo 2020 olympic committee is in the late stages of a similar furore over their logo, a stylized "T" with some some adornments, which turned out look similar to the logo of a Belgian theater company: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+theatre+de+liege https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tokyo+olympics+thea... Equally silly in my opinion, but people then found more blatant examples of copying in the designer's past work so they wound up scrapping the emblem.