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Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[-] helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.org 61 points 11 months ago

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"

[-] pyr0ball@reddthat.com 30 points 11 months ago

Lol so he put even less effort into it than we thought

👏⏱️👏

[-] electromage@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] GammaGames@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Of course there are fonts that support every character, the characters themselves would be useless if they couldn’t be rendered by anything. I’m only saying that this specific font doesn’t support the character.