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Shifted 3 Shapes – Making a w3M Logo


A brief process overview about designing a logo for w3m, a text-based web browser.

As a long-time users & often advocate (along with slow work), I had accepted out of a sense of duty to free software on limited resources. Originally I had added a 15° skew on the whole logo to bring a bit of a older generational flair to the design, but the new maintainer said even that was too modern. Being a project aiming for the low-tech simplicity of a TUI, a logo should reflect this ideal to be equaly simple & compatible.

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