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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.
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Musk’s logo for “X” is literally just Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).
Which means that #Musk can’t trademark the logo.The good news is that “x com” can be trademarked.
The bad news is that “x com” is already trademarked.
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.
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”
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.
Let’s split the difference. “Twit” fits.
We’ll see. The reality is that if you pay enough you can probably get the trademark off of anyone.
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.’”
Does Musk even have any “In-house” designers anymore? Figured those were let got with the rest of the teams.
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”
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.
The character (𝕏) doesn’t actually doesn’t exist in the font, because supporting arbitrary Unicode characters in every font would be absurd. Paste it into the font preview and it renders a black square.
There are fonts that support every unicode character though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts supports up to Unicode 13. How do you think phones display every single unicode character in a text message?
Lol so he put even less effort into it than we thought
👏⏱️👏
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.
You’d be surprised
