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Comment by gnarbarian | Hacker News Reader

wow you seem bitter. I like the new logo. It is in line with the trend toward more 'flat' looking designs.

It isn't flat as it's semi-3D. But even so, that's not a reason to feel it's good - that's just a reason to feel it's current-ish.

It has 3d bevels, if you look closely. That makes it look a bit dated, although just being flat to be trendy wouldn't be good either.

The fact that you have to look closely is a problem. The details only barely show up on their website on my 13inch macbook and I at least am left semi-straining to actually resolve the logo completely. It looks to me like someone designed a logo with little regard to how it would be primely seen by non employees --- I'm sure it looks better on a giant sign out front.

Why it's sometimes hard to take critique from HN seriously: http://img.pandawhale.com/29687-Grumpy-Cat-I-hate-everything...

Memes disgust me

It's a straight up bad design. It's the logo of a massive company, there is no room for emotion or being "bitter". They have a lot of man power, and produced this, it's sub par. It's not pleasing to the eye, it's sharp and 3d-ish. You'd get something better by throwing $500 towards 99 designs.

A logo should look great on a massive banner as well as my tiny retina screen. Right now, when it's smaller, the bevels and shadows/jaggedness of the logo are very off putting, not something I'm pleased to look at.

> It's a straight up bad design.

No, design, and especially logo design, is extremely subjective. Don't pretend like it's not.

OK maybe you're right. Can you show me an objectively better one?

About 5 of the "30 days of logos" ones.

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