This is simply gatekeeping. I understand writing an article about it but filing a radar?
The only thing the author wants to do here is a fandom flex.
Ironically, his pictures prove that the icons have changed a lot! What’s the canonical face anyway? You can look at the prior icon and argue they broke canon there removing the black center stroke and clipping the overflowing line.
Darker on the left, lighter on the right. Flush with the surrounding box. Evokes the feeling of two people: one looking straight at you, and one profile face.
Even the profile face is broken in the new redesign.
I always took it as a Cubist portrait of a face where the perspective is simultaneously from the side and the front. My issue isn't the color swap as much as it being inset, it doesn't invoke the same feeling in me anymore.
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This is simply gatekeeping. I understand writing an article about it but filing a radar?
The only thing the author wants to do here is a fandom flex.
Ironically, his pictures prove that the icons have changed a lot! What’s the canonical face anyway? You can look at the prior icon and argue they broke canon there removing the black center stroke and clipping the overflowing line.
Darker on the left, lighter on the right. Flush with the surrounding box. Evokes the feeling of two people: one looking straight at you, and one profile face.
Even the profile face is broken in the new redesign.
I always took it as a Cubist portrait of a face where the perspective is simultaneously from the side and the front. My issue isn't the color swap as much as it being inset, it doesn't invoke the same feeling in me anymore.