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.

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    Makes sense.

    Elon undoubtedly has folders full of cool images he’s saved, so while he was still focused on the “X” idea, he rummaged around and found that one and thought, “Yeah! This is gonna be sick dude!”

    Thus are decisions made by the world’s richest teenage edgelord.

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    The 𝕏 is also a Unicode character:

    http://www.unicode-symbol.com/u/1D54F.html

    Somebody was trolling Space Karen when they provided this for a logo. It’s not going to be easy to trademark.

    Update: Not only is the 𝕏 a Unicode character, a podcast logo, a font character, it also seems to be a Microsoft and/or Meta trademark for online social networking services.

    2nd Update: Musk hired a company to remove the Twitter sign from the building in SF but neglected to get a permit. The cops shut the work down.

    Space Karen’s destroyed the internationally recognized Twitter brand, reduced the value of his $44 billion purchase by at least half, chased advertisers and users away, seriously diminished the value of Telsa and tarnished his own reputation enough that it may never recover. He is now going to either have to back-pedal or be embroiled in years of litigation. Good thing the “genius” doesn’t pay his lawyers.

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      Hmm something tells me that Musk isn’t very good at forward thinking.

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      Looks like some Lemmy apps confuse this link for /u/1

      Whoops.

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    It’s literally just a Unicode character.

    From elsewhere:

    𝕏 is a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X.”

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      So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?

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        That’s a font/design issue, not a character issue. If that were the case, then no one could use letters (or unicode characters) for their logo.

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          Fonts are definitely subject to copyright. That’s why there are open fonts and why not all of the fonts on windows are just thrown into Linux for compatibility.

          Edit: forgot to finish with that the inverse is also true. If that X is indistinguishable from something copylefted or public domain then he will be facing a lot of trouble trying to copyright it.

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            The thing is, fonts are copyrightable but typefaces aren’t. Typefaces are the symbols, fonts are the files that contain all the symbols along with the formatting and everything else that let you use the typefaces in software. So he probably can’t copyright the symbol itself and it’s doubtful he could get a trademark on it either. But at the same time, copyright is also weird in that if he made an image and had that X in it, he would have the copyright to that specific image. But that’s only insomuch as anyone else would also own the copyright of an image they made with the stupid X in it.

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            That’s my point. If he used a copyrighted/copylefted font, he might be in trouble. But he doesn’t get in trouble just for using an unicode character.

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    So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?

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    To be fair, that design is a pretty basic one. Like extremely basic. Sure it’s cleaned up and modernized but trying to say it was stolen is a reach. Elon does still have the Midas Touch where everything turns to gold, in which he subsequently murders everything he touches and makes even gold worthless.

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      This is like the discussion about how others were copying Apples corners, they are fucking round corners.

      There is only so much you can design about an X, so no matter how they would design it, someone made that. You can find countless issues with Musk, but that’s just sad and desperate.

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    As a graphic designer, I knew at a glance that nobody was paid to make that stupid “x”.

    If a client as big as Twitter asked me for an X logo I’d be so fucking depressed. It would be such a pain to make a proper logo like that without looking exactly like a dozen other ones, because it’s hack and has been done to death.

    The X everything app is literally some high school composition notebook doodle shit Elon has been clinging to for over 20 years. He’s like the dad from the movie Holes that thinks he’s a great inventor, but just keeps catching the house on fire and stinking up the place.

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      some high school composition notebook doodle shit

      Kindergarten shit. “I want everything to be X.”

      He would have named the car company teXla if he could.

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      His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.

      He has achieved nothing.

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    I was just thinking about all the websites that have the Facebook logo, the Instagram logo, and the Twitter logo on their pages. That’s just supposed to be an X now?

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    It’s in the Unicode set.

    𝕏

    It’s one of the hollow letters used in math.

    Basically what I’m saying is math should sue him.

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    Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.

    They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦‍♂️