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by unwind 2926 days ago
Interesting, although a bit strange to me ... is the author expecting existing projects to want to claim a logo and rename themselves, or are the names of the logos only placeholders?

Anyway, I think the "globe"[1] one is quite close to looking like AT&T's[2] which would at least make me a bit wary.

[1] https://github.com/arasatasaygin/openlogos/issues/24

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT%26T_logo_2016.svg

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He does explain a little more if you click the "How it works." link.

I do agree with you about the globe / AT&T logo though. Steps[1] is also very similar to an old icon on Windows (I think it was a placeholder icon for Microsoft Visual C++ or Borland Builder projects? But can't rightly remember off hand)

[1] http://openlogos.org/logos/steps.jpg

It was probably the placeholder icon for MFC apps, shown in the middle at the end of this blog post:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/02/27/happy-25t...

Ahhh yes, that looks familiar. For some reason I don't remember it with lettering on it though. With the lettering the MFC and steps logos aren't actually that alike.