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.
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?
I mean, it’s less about that and more about just calling out how stupid many of his decisions have been. What’s wrong with pointing out stupid shit someone does in full view of the public like this?
Seems pretty fair since Musk is behaving like a douchebag
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.
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.
Not that I want to defend Elon or anything… But it’s an X. The second most simple character in the alphabet. What are you expecting from an X? How much should one pay for one X?
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.
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.
Kindergarten shit. “I want everything to be X.”
He would have named the car company teXla if he could.
His rockets blow up, his cars crash and burn, his tunnels grind to a halt.
He has achieved nothing.
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?
Yes, but it should be pretty easy to add since it’s just an unicode character
cant wait to have that on my keyboard!
actually that’s some nice merch idea
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I think you mean 𝕏cape key.
Ohhhh, you got him now!! Surely this will make the people turn against him! 🙄
Found the Musk fanboy lmao.
I’m a lady tho.
I mean, it’s less about that and more about just calling out how stupid many of his decisions have been. What’s wrong with pointing out stupid shit someone does in full view of the public like this?
Seems pretty fair since Musk is behaving like a douchebag
Hows he acting like a douchebag?
Edit: This was meant to be posted as a reply in a comment chain.
Yes. I can almost guarantee that’s precisely what happened.
In fact, if there was any rich person I’d label as crazy and obsessive and self centered enough to comb through individual tweets it would be Elon.
Calm down hun.
Imma be honest, this 100% looks like xorg.
yeah it really does. also it makes it funnier how elon has joked with URL “x.com”, knowing xorg’s website is at x.org
edit: oh, so space Karen really did go forward with the x.com… well this will have funny consequences
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yes please! i would pay for the chance of having more confused twitter users!
X.com has been around forever. He owned it before, then PayPal owned it, and now he owns it again.
Is this all because Elon can’t afford to renew Twitter’s domain name?
He thinks a rebrand is going to solve all of his problems.
Musk has bad NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here)
It’s literally just a Unicode character.
From elsewhere:
So, does that mean he doesn’t own the copyright to the logo if it is is a generic Unicode character?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Who gives a fuck.
This actually confused me this morning using Mobile Safari. The ‘X’ is on the opposite side corner from the normal close button.
Not that I want to defend Elon or anything… But it’s an X. The second most simple character in the alphabet. What are you expecting from an X? How much should one pay for one X?
I fucking knew it. Something told me there was no way he hired an actual designer to design shit.
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.
So, if I type a “Y” in Comic Sans and use it as a logo, I will have a billion dollar company?
You have to start with a 40 billion dollar company if you want a billion dollar company using Musk’s methods.
No. You need the company first.
Not guaranteed, but it might help you turn a 44 billion dollar company into a billion dollar company.
No, you have to buy someone else’s billion dollar company first Then you can give it a shitty logo.
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.
Man I’m stealing that midas touch line. Haha
Also the guy says “do whatever you want with it”, so not technically stealing
…that was after they debuted the design.
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.
Ah, so not copyright infringement or a blatant rip-off, just “inspired by”.
They saw it, and were truly inspired to copy it exactly 🤦♂️
Also close enough to the Xorg logo to be trademark infringement
Be careful. If they sue him, he’ll just buy X.org… and then enshitify it.
Isn’t x11 dying in favor of Wayland anyways?
Not really
It is.
We have Wayland now, so he can have it. Most major software doesn’t even use the cool x.org features anyway.