The W3C revealed the new HTML5 logo designed by Ocupop, a design firm in Hawaii that looks to me listens to too much Jack Johnson…
It stands strong and true, resilient and universal as the markup you write. It shines as bright and as bold as the forward-thinking, dedicated web developers you are. It’s the standard’s standard, a pennant for progress.
Strong and true? Bright and bold? I think I just threw up in my mouth. HTML5 isn’t our knight in shining armor – it’s a cool new toy to play with. That’s what happens when design agencies take themselves too seriously. Personally I think it looks a bit dated, and doesn’t reflect anything going on in modern web design. Where are the rounded corners for gosh sakes? And drop shadows! Okay, those are CSS3 features, not HTML5. I think my design would have looked more like: < !5 />
I kind of preferred the unofficial, gold, 3D HTML5 logo that’s been floating around. It was a bit unrefined, but I thought it looked “techy” enough to represent.
But don’t mind my grumpy ramblings. What I do like are the icons that come with it. Each icon represents a piece of the HTML5 technology. I’ve already created the Club AJAX HTML5 badge that includes the technology we use and stuck it in the sidebar!
Okay W3C, I’ll get used to it.
After emerging out as a platform some time ago, we can see how HTML 5 is now creating it’s own ‘brand’ in a sense… I ve seven seen some HTML 5 t-shirts on sales online. Well very geeky of course bit still..
Great post.
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I kind of like it. But it sort of looks like it should be on a chest plate of a robot. LOL!
I think it more like transformers.
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it looks SuperMan to me!
Isn’t it ironic that there’s a new HTML 5 logo just when they’re dropping ’5′ and going with just HTML? Looks like the new 5 logo is the world’s shortest lved logo. Is there a plain old HTML logo?
@Marvin: No, and that’s one of the rubs. HTML doesn’t have a logo, nor does JavaScript, nor CSS, XML, etc, etc. Languages just don’t have logos (Java may be the exception).