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trhaynes on April 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: New GitHub Logo

Exactly. Compare the logo in the blog post to the one in the masthead. And then go one step further and compare to the favicon (no tail there).

The small sizes don't have to convey that the tail is a tentacle, they just have to convey "GitHub".

addandsubtract on April 16, 2013 [–]

There is a tail in the new favicon[0] It's also been the old logo[1]

[0] https://github.com/favicon.ico

[1] http://octodex.github.com/favicon.ico

wfraser on April 16, 2013 | [–]

Only at larger sizes. At the 16x16px version, there isn't anymore.

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