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Perspective: This is how the normal person will see what you are hating http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logo
by TheBiv 13y ago
Perspective: This is how the normal person will see what you are hating http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png http://rkuykendall.com/uploads/fx-logos-small.png
- ChrisNorstrom 13y agoIt looks like someone bleached an orange fox's tail and rapped it around an old beach ball. However, you are correct, it's not a big deal to the average person. To me it's annoying. Then again, another designer will come by in 2 years and re-design it into something else.
- zobzu 13y ago"Then again, another designer will come by in 2 years and re-design it into something else." yep. it must be hard to hear for designers but sometimes i wonder if they're "necessary because we need to change because people like change" or if they're utterly useless and trying to justify their existence by changing everything every year, no matter what the change is ;-)
- scott_s 13y agoInteresting - at that scale, the gloss on the globe in the 2009-2013 version looks unnecessarily distracting to me. The latest one "reads" best to me at that scale.
- eksith 13y agoI was thinking the same thing. But by and large, 2004-2005 was remarkably a case of "if it ain't broke...". The fox was just the right shade, the globe was there, but not overwhelming. Considering this was right before the rise of Web 2.0, we can see the gloss was appropriate at the time, but it suddenly follows the flashy trend downhill.
- aninhumer 13y agoIf anything, I feel like this highlights some of the problems mentioned above more clearly. Not that most normal persons will care though.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThat's actually an excellent point. In this context, "flattening" the logo seems like a very bad idea... The "old" logo uses strong color to make the pieces visible, while "new" logo depends on outlines and borders to show detail, which naturally blur when you shrink the logo. Honestly, the "flat" design starts looking a lot more like a blue-and-orange-smudge at that scale.
- alanh 13y agoNormal users never command-tab? Normal users will never get Retina monitors? What proportion of users need to see graphics at high resolution for them to count? Isn’t even 10% of Firefox’s user base a huge number of daily views?
- zobzu 13y agoi'd rather see it on a w7/w8 taskbar and an osx task switch to get a "real feel"