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CSS gets a new logo and it uses the color `rebeccapurple`

(michaelcharl.es)
877 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 04:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.35s | source
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WD-42 ◴[17 Nov 24 05:39 UTC] No.42162230[source]▶
I really don’t like these logos that are boxes with text in the lower right. The post cites a “common design language” with other tech but this has to be the most low effort language imaginable.
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1. kibwen ◴[17 Nov 24 14:50 UTC] No.42164458[source]▶
Logos do not exist in a vacuum, so evaluating them requires considering their context.

CSS is not a technology that needs eye-catching marketing. The existence of branding is mostly just for the purposes of giving someone something to put on a powerpoint slide, or a sticker to put on a laptop. It's allowed to be boring.

In addition, it exists as part of a family of web technologies, so giving it consistent branding with the other web technologies makes sense. You can argue that whoever first came up with this simple sort of branding was unimaginative (I think the JS logo was the first?), but just because something is simple doesn't mean it's not capable of being iconic.