.NET Gets a Facelift

by Reporting Team | Comments 7

No, Microsoft hasn't announced any special changes to the framework. Instead, one of the first news items out of PDC (before the conference has even started, no less) is that they'll be changing the .NET branding. That's right, the tired old .NET logo we've been staring at for the past 8 years is getting a facelift. For those of you who haven't yet read about it from Scott Hanselman or Joe Stagner, I thought I'd show it to you first here.

 

So, out with the old...
 dotNet_old
 
And in with the new...
dotNET_new

 

I must admit, I like the new design. What do you think?

7 Comments

Chris Vickerson
I agree with everything Ben said and I would also say it looks like .net is distancing themselves away from the Windows'y look-and-feel colours.
Nicholas M.
I also don't like it. In any case, I care more about the framework and what goes in it rather than the logo itself.
Eric
I'm kind of torn on this one. I like the design on the logo, but the font is all wrong, the capitalized .NET looks kind of amateurish in my opinion... I agree it goes better with the Expression suite, but still, their designers should have thought a little harder about the text part of the logo.
Kevin Babcock
This look brings the .NET image in line with the newly announced Windows Azure product line. Check out a screen shot here: http://tinyurl.com/68bfky
Bill Farmer
I work for a design firm that has designed many logos that you all see every day. This is a good logo and a vast improvement over the original. The symbol itself is very solid and strong but still has a nice sense of movement. I understand why they did the type the way they did. The name - for better or worse - is .NET so emhasizing it makes sense. The strength of the symbol requires a larger type size. In smaller type the name would just fade away. Logos, like anything brand related, tend to grow on you. I doubt that when people first saw the rainbow colored Apple logo that people liked it much. If the technology is good then the logo will become more powerful over time.
Brian Mains
I don't think it's that bad, but I don't think it's much of an improvement. It's just different; they should have kept the old .NET with the multi-colors and just added the ribbon. Actually, if they were going to redesign it, I'd wish they redesign the whole thing, instead of just adding a ribbon; I'm not the greatest graphics designer so I won't comment there but seems like there is room to do way much more. Add color to the font, and create a new icon, and go the distance.
michaud
The old logo was pretty bad so compared to that the new logo is much better. The old logo had all sorts of problems: the awkward place of the color gradients, the extranious appendages on the letters that pull the e in all the wrong directions an the disproportionately fat dot. The new one is more distinguished and more straightforward at the same time. I like it

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