Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/11/04/facebook-rebrands-as-facebook.html
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ok @beschizza that 'shop might have gone slightly too far…
Wait…What? It isn’t photoshopped at all?
Oh…ok then.
Is it FECEBOOK, FECESBOOK or FAECESBOOK?
In before @Lexicat;
not enough spaces between the letters.
Did they hire Shingy?
They hired Shingy.
After going through the dot-com era of swirly 3D logos, we’re now going through an odd period that future design students will dub “minimalist”, but it’s more like “hey instead of hiring a design studio, let’s just type our company name in a Futura variant we got off of FontSquirrel”.
Ah yes… how their boomer users have been typing their brand for years
It looks like Zuckerberg’s been spending too much time watching that bullshit show THIS IS US as some research project into how humans font.
In an alternate dot-com universe, if they’d survived, maybe they’d rebrand as well…
BACKPFEIFFENGESICHTSBUCH!
(face in need of a good hard slap book)
I always pronounce it “facebook” not willing to treat it well by capitalization.
It needs the Hellvetica treatment.
“NEW AND IMPROVED!!”
Shouty and obnoxious. Seems appropriate.