Logos do not exist in a vacuum, so evaluating them requires considering their context. CSS is not a technology that needs eye-catching marketing. The existence

Logos do not exist in a vacuum, so evaluating them requires considering their context. CSS is not a technology that needs eye-catching marketing. The existence of branding is mostly just for the purposes of giving someone something to put on a powerpoint slide, or a sticker to put on a laptop. It's allowed to be boring. In addition, it exists as part of a family of web technologies, so giving it consistent branding with the other web technologies makes sense. You can argue that whoever first came up with this simple sort of branding was unimaginative (I think the JS logo was the first?), but just because something is simple doesn't mean it's not capable of being iconic.