Wow, Zawodny and Fayyad are out, the Google monetization deal appears to be a go, and Ichan has got the executives distracted for the rest of the quarter. The new logo feels like a flailing attempt to catch some air. - Kevin Fox
Purple logo font and design is much better than old red one! I hated red!! :) - Jigar Mehta
I stand corrected! Having worked there I felt an affinity for the logo they've had since day one. The typography is actually pretty cool. I just dislike change. :-) - Kevin Fox
Based on the headline from TechCrunch I expected something radically different (read: bad), but this is a nice improvement. - Kirk Kittell
Changing long-established and known branding is stupid... period. - Chris Reed
I like it. It's sufficiently similar to the old one while brining a breath of fresh air to their brand. - Tony Ruscoe
I wonder if the added blue is the sadness regarding zawodny's departure. - Seth Gottlieb
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Will they come up with a techno version of the yodeling song? - Ontario Emperor
call me a skeptic, but unless I see source code with a server name & time stamp, I think someone faked it. I have a hard time seeing Yahoo move away from the Gotham font. Color.. whatever. but that font is "the yahoo font". - Erin
I'm so glad that these screenshots have survived and (sort of) been released. I wish the content weren't blurred though -- I'm pretty sure it wasn't super-personal or anything -- I was usually careful to avoid that. It would also be nice to have the actual screenshots instead of photos of screenshots. - Paul Buchheit
We should ask Keith if we can get real screenshots since they've made them available for photographing anyhow. - Kevin Fox
I'd love to see the pre-release logos TechCrunch blurred out. Would that violate some policy? - Voyagerfan5761
crossing fingers that the real screenshots make their way onto FF - Adam Kazwell
I love how they started off looking like other web-based mail readers and then quickly moved to the trademark UI. Very, very neat. - Jake
This is great! All of those interface changes were crazy! - Brandon Titus
The logos were just random placeholders (such as the trout, which wasn't blurred out for some reason). They really weren't particularly interesting or meaningful. - Paul Buchheit
I think Gmail has always been missing something since it eliminated the trout... - Chris Reed
There are great, especially given what Kevin said in Philipp's recent interview about not being able to discuss what Gmail looked like before release. Now, the trout... does that have any relation to TroutBoard.com? ;-) - Tony Ruscoe
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Yes, I was inspired by the "Trout Farm" in eXistenZ - Paul Buchheit
i like some of these layouts better than the current one :) - Tim Hoeck
Trout, fail whales, something's fishy. - Alex Haar
Paul -- another Cronenberg fan! Glad to know there are a few of us oddballs out there. - Phil Glockner
I'm being honest when I say "inspiring"... I've built some homemade Intranet stuff at work and I love to see the evolution of the design. I want to go back and redesign everything now! Fantastic stuff. - Vince DeGeorge
