ancient Greek Firefox rule

196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 566 points – 9 months ago

Salty old designer’s 2¢

I think the new icon scales much better. The fox’s head has turned, and the snoot is easier to see when it’s small / far away. Also, the tail flame is more exaggerated, and it is also more apparent at a small scale.

The globe is kind of lost now. It just feels like a random purple ball, but scaling that down allowed the designers to play up the tail flame.

All in all, I dig it. Complex gradients and shapes are not great for logos. Never has been. That stuff is hard to work with when you start putting logos on signage, fav icons, etc. Simple logos have always been more practical.

And that said, simple is very very hard to do well. It’s clear that they spent a LOT of time on every little curve and detail with this thing. I think the designer did a nice job of preserving the history while giving Mozilla’s design team something that will be easier to work with.

absolute buffoon's 2¢ here

fox cute

uwu

it's interesting that people argue about this a lot because firefox has the most complex icon on my home screen

I know I'm completely butchering the color palette here, but I've finally realized what I felt was missing from the new logo. In the previous iterations, the head was always turned in such a way that you couldn't see the eyes. Now the head is at an angle where you should see the right eye. But you don't, the head is completely empty.

Here's an """"improvement"""" making the logo a bit more friendly I think:

Now it looks like it has a mole lol

^^ imo the logos under the "Doric" and "Tuscan" pillars are my two favorites. I like the slightly more detailed one better than the flat logo, but I completely understand why they changed it and there are some way worse examples of logos getting butchered by becoming too simple.

Am I the only one who likes the new Logo? I mean its simplified but you can still clearly recognize the Red Panda. Plus I like purple

You're not the only one, people especially in niche spheres like Linux are very nostalgic of a certain era in computing and refuse to accept that change happens. For example there are people who absolutely hate apps with the slightest bit of white space even though that was proven time and time again to be more accessible and readable

Change can happen, that's fine

We can also dislike modern logo design trends, those are 2 completely different topics at hand

But it is supposed to be a fox!

Actually no

My life is a lie

nope
Edit: Dug a bit deeper and found the answer on Firefox's website

Wow I didn't know that, the logo definitely looks more like a fox though...

yeah i kinda feel like they're just making it up? like it's clearly a red fox, red pandas don't have a long snout like that and are overall rounder.

? In the very question you linked they state without a doubt that it's depicting a fox tho

"hi, the logo is clearly depicting a fox - however the red panda (common name: firefox) is also a cute mascot for our browser"

That means they have some red panda mascots (it seems like they use to actually have some live cams that you could watch them on too!) But the logo itself does infact depict a fox

So it's a fox but their mascot is a red panda.

Actually it’s supposed to be a fox

I think the one before the current one is my favorite. I feel like the current one is a bit blocky while the previous has a little more detail but still looks good when shrunk down. I don't hate the current one, though.

I like it too, it is just easier on the eyes. There certainly is a trend of minimalism that makes every company try to simplify their logos, but for firefox I feel it does fit nicely

Yeah, I like the oldest