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I think that image really visualises how bad the x logo is https://img-cdn.thepublive.com/filters:format(webp)/afaqs/media/post_attachments/01a0219e8bd0442ca29

• pprotas 17d ago
  Musk probably drew it himself
  • erk__ 17d ago
    $ \mathbb{X} $
    • 7bit 17d ago
      I don't think he'd be able to come up with this.
  • tidbeck 17d ago
    He took it from a tweet https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1683310992493608960 https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1683310992493608960
    • pferde 17d ago
      Wasn't it basically the X11 window system logo?
      • LocalH 17d ago
        It's confusingly similar (by the "average person" metric( but I don't think it's identical
        • bluebarbet 17d ago
          The average person has absolutely never heard of X11.
          • Brian_K_White 17d ago
            The average person has absolutely no need to know what X11 is to compare the visual appearance of 2 images.
          • LocalH 16d ago
            Buc-ee's has won infringement suits against far less confusing logos.
      • z500 17d ago
        It's an X from the blackboard bold range in Unicode.
  • LocalH 17d ago
    Musk probably came across the shape as a child and drew it on a napkin to carry it with him, like he did with the Cybertruck design after "beating" Car Designer on either the Apple II or PC
  • xd1936 17d ago
    U+1D54F, MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%F0%9D%95%8F https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%F0%9D%95%8F
• rsynnott 17d ago
  2009 was kind of a bizarre intermission. Don’t remember that at all, though I was certainly using Twitter at that point.
• nosioptar 17d ago
  The "X" logo twitter uses these days looks like someone bought an x11 logo from temu.