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vogon
@vogon

the complaint about the kerning is off-base, though, the kerning on this is fine or at least not offensively bad; the "u" should probably be closer to the "l" than it is if you're just looking at the letter outlines, but the designer was probably trying to make the little river of negative space between the drop shadow on the "l" and the outline on the "u" not look any weirder than it already does


vogon
@vogon

okay people have been roasting this, both in the comments and on twitter, for being a direct rip of an example template someone found on behance, and at first I didn't buy it simply because twitter's execution of this style looks so much more poorly done, but then I overlaid the two images on top of one another, and both the relative widths of the background hairlines and the locations of almost all of the lens flares match exactly if you overlay the two


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in reply to @vogon's post:

your claim about the kerning complaint being off base is off base >:U the B drop bits touch the L outline and same with the u and e, plus ignoring the drop bits the L is significantly not centered between the B and u regardless. ratio

my new favorite hideous design decision on this is the overly thick vector display/neon sign hairlines in the background, and the second layer of slightly less awful hairlines in the foreground, and then slam the whole thing with a layer of film grain that upon closer inspection looks like it might just be photoshop random noise

in reply to @vogon's post:

this reminds me of when i googled "photoshop lens tutorial" and found a tutorial that happened to produce our exact logo, but it's a (soon to be formerly) billion dollar company and not some stupid startup