cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2399016

Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.

    • FlowVoid@midwest.socialEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The good news is that “x com” can be trademarked.

      The bad news is that “x com” is already trademarked.

      • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        xcom is trademarked as a video game. There can be existing trademarks in different spaces. So you could easily get an xcom social media site trademarked.

        • FlowVoid@midwest.socialEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Yes, it’s trademarked for use in video games.

          And by another company for use in sporting equipment.

          And by another company for fiber optics.

          And by another company, as follows…

          Telecommunications services, namely, transmission of voice, data, graphics, images, audio, and video via the internet

          Yeah, maybe should’ve stuck with “Twitter”

          • nzodd@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            1 year ago

            That’s too many letters though. I’m starting to think this imbecile is just tired of sounding out all seven letters multiple times a day. X is nice and simple, like him.

          • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            1 year ago

            We’ll see. The reality is that if you pay enough you can probably get the trademark off of anyone.

            • ffolkes@fanexus.comEnglish
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              1 year ago

              Yeah… But maybe not ANYONE… “Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has already registered an ‘X’ logo in connection to ‘online social networking services’ and ‘social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development.’”

  • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Does Musk even have any “In-house” designers anymore? Figured those were let got with the rest of the teams.

  • helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not to defend musk, but it’s not from one specific font. The logo is just Unicode char 1D54F, a blackboard bold X/“MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X”

    • electromage@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A character is nothing without a font though. When you look at a character on-screen, it’s being rendered in a specific font. Typing that Unicode character in “Special Alphabets 4” produces the image in question.

  • bermuda@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    fonts are ridiculously cheap if you’re a billionaire. Musk is stupid, but I doubt he’d be so stupid he didn’t pay the like $200 fee.