I think that image really visualises how bad the x logo is
https://img-cdn.thepublive.com/filters:format(webp)/afaqs/me...
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The original logos weren't great but they were more charming than X
I think that image really visualises how bad the x logo is
https://img-cdn.thepublive.com/filters:format(webp)/afaqs/me...
The original logos weren't great but they were more charming than X
2009 was kind of a bizarre intermission. Don’t remember that at all, though I was certainly using Twitter at that point.
The "X" logo twitter uses these days looks like someone bought an x11 logo from temu.
Musk probably drew it himself
He took it from a tweet https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1683310992493608960
Wasn't it basically the X11 window system logo?
It's an X from the blackboard bold range in Unicode.
It's confusingly similar (by the "average person" metric( but I don't think it's identical
The average person has absolutely never heard of X11.
The average person has absolutely no need to know what X11 is to compare the visual appearance of 2 images.
U+1D54F, MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X
https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%F0%9D%95%8F
$ \mathbb{X} $
I don't think he'd be able to come up with this.
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