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Check out the logos of Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera,
Safari, Konqueror and Netscape. They have one thing in common: They are
all round.
This got me thinking, why are they all round?
My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
(depicting world-wideness). The Firefox logo has a literal planet in it,
but are all the other ones also round for the same reason?
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
Thunderbird is also round.
Spyglass wasn't round, and neither was the original netscape logo.
But yes, I'd guess it's the world-wide-ness of it.
Unlike vehicles, most of whom have round logos or tri-part logos because
they manufactured airplanes during the wars, so lots of car logos look like
propellers.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Quoth the raven:
Need S'Mores!
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Darren New escreveu:
> Unlike vehicles, most of whom have round logos or tri-part logos because
> they manufactured airplanes during the wars, so lots of car logos look
> like propellers.
a very good observation...
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On 3-9-2010 18:48, Warp wrote:
> Check out the logos of Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera,
> Safari, Konqueror and Netscape. They have one thing in common: They are
> all round.
>
> This got me thinking, why are they all round?
>
> My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
> (depicting world-wideness). The Firefox logo has a literal planet in it,
> but are all the other ones also round for the same reason?
>
There is also the constraint that it has to fit in a square icon. Other
programs often have an underlying physical medium to refer to (paper and
pen, film strip, play button, 3 1/2' diskette..(though the traffic cone
is an odd one))
Browsers have to be abstract as they should not suggest there is
something they can not do. Starting from that I think there is a good
chance that I would design something roundish myself. (as did avast,
itunes, last fm, google desktop, thunderbird, sunbird, blender, skype
and povray to name a few)
And indeed the planet association would be a nice bonus.
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On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:58:27 -0700, Darren New wrote:
> Spyglass wasn't round, and neither was the original netscape logo.
I think Mosaic was, though, wasn't it?
Jim
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Warp wrote:
> Check out the logos of Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera,
> Safari, Konqueror and Netscape. They have one thing in common: They are
> all round.
>
> This got me thinking, why are they all round?
>
> My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
> (depicting world-wideness). The Firefox logo has a literal planet in it,
> but are all the other ones also round for the same reason?
I found this question quite interesting, and reposted it elsewhere. One of
the replies I got was: "many other icons are round, too ... this smells like
a case of '99% of all criminals wear underwear while comitting their crimes,
obviously underwear makes people criminal'" :)
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Le 10/09/2010 03:36, Nicolas Alvarez a écrit :
> Warp wrote:
>> Check out the logos of Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera,
>> Safari, Konqueror and Netscape. They have one thing in common: They are
>> all round.
>>
>> This got me thinking, why are they all round?
>>
>> My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
>> (depicting world-wideness). The Firefox logo has a literal planet in it,
>> but are all the other ones also round for the same reason?
>
> I found this question quite interesting, and reposted it elsewhere. One of
> the replies I got was: "many other icons are round, too ... this smells like
> a case of '99% of all criminals wear underwear while comitting their crimes,
> obviously underwear makes people criminal'" :)
You are on something, but I have better numbers:
99.9% of all criminals wear shoes while committing their crimes,
obviously shoes makes people criminal.
So forcing people to go bare foot would reduce criminality, as any
new-age guru could be able to assert.
100% (yes, 100%) of all criminals had a head while committing their
crimes, so beheading people would make criminality a legend of the past.
It's just that simple. And it worked on the mars planet!
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Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] free fr> wrote:
> > I found this question quite interesting, and reposted it elsewhere. One of
> > the replies I got was: "many other icons are round, too ... this smells like
> > a case of '99% of all criminals wear underwear while comitting their crimes,
> > obviously underwear makes people criminal'" :)
> You are on something, but I have better numbers:
> 99.9% of all criminals wear shoes while committing their crimes,
> obviously shoes makes people criminal.
I think that the fancy name for that fallacy is "cum hoc ergo propter hoc".
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- Warp
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On 10-9-2010 3:36, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Check out the logos of Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera,
>> Safari, Konqueror and Netscape. They have one thing in common: They are
>> all round.
>>
>> This got me thinking, why are they all round?
>>
>> My theory: Web browser logos are usually based on the "planet" motif
>> (depicting world-wideness). The Firefox logo has a literal planet in it,
>> but are all the other ones also round for the same reason?
>
> I found this question quite interesting, and reposted it elsewhere. One of
> the replies I got was: "many other icons are round, too ... this smells like
> a case of '99% of all criminals wear underwear while comitting their crimes,
> obviously underwear makes people criminal'" :)
Reminds me of a comic we have hanging somewhere in the lab. The text on
it is something like:
17% of all accidents occur when the driver is drunk. That is disturbing,
that means that in 83% of cases...
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