cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2399016

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.

  • helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    40·
    1 year 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”

    • electromage@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      1 year 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.

      • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
        7·
        1 year 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.

          • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year 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.

            • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Oh, I see, I misread. That’s interesting. So it looks like it’s typically just a glyph.