Visual balance.. The Y is too far left. You could have started with the simple and effective version you ended up with, not the "clever-negative-space" one. Abs

Visual balance.. The Y is too far left. You could have started with the simple and effective version you ended up with, not the "clever-negative-space" one. Abstraction provides better results when you have something to take away from. See if you can get an interesting result going the other way (removing instead of adding) from your current final design.