Thanks for the initiative. Greatly appreciated. Joined, but will lurk only at first, I guess.

Nice. Joined.

Thank you for clarifying. Looking at the way all this is presented, I see good and honest creators at work. My comment wasn’t meant as grumpy as it may sound, hope that came through. It’s just that, albeit pretty sure unintentional*, resorting to marketing tactics feels a bit off in this close(r) knit community that Designer News is (well, used to be). You’re some time around here, too, guess you feel the same.

Or I’m grumpy old. Once there was a young designer here A/B testing headlines to his portfolio – felt off, to me, too.

Whatever. Nice font. Have my E-Mail :)

* DN ist either link or comment – and no one wants long headlines. I get it.

Why not be honest and say: “Hey, I want to grow the mailing list for my (I assume) new business, I give you a font for that“

It’s a marvelous font, but tainted by this tactic.

Same here. Sounds small, but boy did I mutter "Finally!" and smile when I read this.

Sometimes you have to remind people ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Shockingly bad. Good take from John Gruber about it: https://daringfireball.net/2019/01/pentagramslackrangeofpossibilities

But this is designer news here and we do care, so yeah, it has a place here. Even more so when it’s shockingly bad work on this scale, there is something to be learned.

Two good takes: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/16/slack-bland-new-logo

https://daringfireball.net/2019/01/pentagramslackrangeofpossibilities

The real stunner is that it is conceptually so unsound. From Pentagram you’d expect at least something deeply thought through. But everything John Gruber says here rings true: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/16/slack-bland-new-logo

And if you look at this: https://daringfireball.net/2019/01/pentagramslackrangeofpossibilities

it even feels more like lazy junior work.

Thank you for the work – and for sharing it