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...and it wasn't even UC Royal Blue, it's the Sky Blue that only UCLA uses, the symbolism of which I thought was particularly poorly thought out.

I think the logo is okay (though merely okay) without the gradient, but I cannot fathom why the gradient exists in any of the variants. It looks totally stupid, like someone just filled it the wrong way in Illustrator and then didn't bother to fix it.

android progress dialog[1] in a blue background was the first thing I saw... Other people saw a toilet flushing

[1]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_A_FNfqyuLTQ/Sp1g8tvyVtI/AAAAAAAADV...

-- I am UC alum and I felt they did a horrible job with the new 'web friendly' logo.